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HAND-BOOK OF CHARITIES 


BY 


JOHN VISHER 

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THIRD EDITION 

REVISED AND ENLARGED 


CHICAGO 

CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY 
56 Fifth Avenue 
1897 






Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1894, 
by John Visher, 

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 


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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

TOPICAL. 


PAGE. 

Classified Table of Contents. 4-5 

Statistics of Church Charities. 6-8 

Introduction. 9-12 

C6nference of Charities. 13-14 

Chicago’s General Charihes. 15-141 

Chicago’s Special Charities.143-161 

Chicago’s Church Charities.....162-229 

Cook County’s Charities, Public.230-237 

Illinois’ State Charities, Public.238 253 

Statistics of Public State Charities. 254 

Statistics of Public County Charities..., 231 

Statistics of Police Departments. 255 

Benevolent Work OF Chicago Police Dept.. 142 
Alphabetical Index.256-260 















TABLE OF CONTENTS—CLASSIFIED. 


ASYLUMS AND HOMES FOn 
CHILDREN. 

PAGE. 


Bureau of Labor and Transportation. 116 

Children’s Aid Society. 51 

Children’s Home Society. 49 

Chicago Orphan Asylum. 35 

■ C. Nursery and Half Orphan Asylum.. 39 

Crippled Children’s Home. IIJ 

Chicago Foundlings’ Home.. 33 

Chicago Home for the Friendless. 24 

C. Industrial School for Girls, Cath.... 173 

Church Home for Orphans. 191 

Danish Children s Home.196 

Deaconess’ Orphan Asylum,I.ake Bluff 19H 

Ill. Industrial School foi- Girls. 73 

Ill. School of Agr. and Man Training 67 

Masonic Orphans’Home. 161 

Newsboys’ Home. 95 

St. Joseph’s and other Catholic Homes 177 
St.Mary’s Ind’tr’l Sch’l for Boys,Cath.. 180 

St. Mary’s Home for Children. 186 

St. Vincent’s Infant Asylum, Cath. 183 

Uhlich’s Ev. Orphan Asylum. 198 

Waifs’ Mission and Training School... 168 

DAY NURSERIES CRECHES. 

Hull House Creche. 65 

Margaret Etter Creche. 94 

St. James’ Day Nursery, Episcopal.... 187 
The Church of the Redeemer’s Creche 206 

University Creche. 51 

Unity School Creche, Unitarian.208 

W.C.T.U.Bethesda and Talcott Creches 138 


FRESH AIR CHARITIES 

Daily News“Fresh Air Fund,”" 

and Lincoln Park Sanitarium 107 


Lake Geneva Holiday Home. 91 

Flower Mission. 28 

Convalescents’ Home. 188 


HOMES FOR AGED. 

Altenheim, German. 147 

Church Home, Episcopal. 189 

Home of Mercy, Swedish Luth.. 229 

Little Sisters of the Poor, N., S. and ' 

W. Side Homes . 176 

Old People’s Home.Prot. 97 

Cook County Infirmary. 236 

Home for the Friendless. 24 


HOMES FOR WOMEN. 

Florence Crittenden Anchorage. 139 

Home for Self-Supporting Women. 62 

Home for the Friendless. 24 

Minnetonka. 124 

Mary A. Ahrens Mission. 171 

St. Francis’ House of Providence.! 183 

St. Joseph’s Home,and House of Mercy 177 
Y. W. C. A. Homes. . 163 


HOMES FOR REFORMATION. 

Erring Woman’s Refuge for Reform.. 19 
Ill.Home for Juvenile Delinquents.. . 238 


House of the Good Shepherd." V.". 174 

Martha Washington Home. 132 

Washingtonian Home for Inebriates.. 129 
W. C. T. U. Anchorage for Girls. 139 

KINDERGARTEN ASSOCIATIONS 

C. Free Kindergarten Association. 85 

C. Froebel Kindergarten Association.. 86 

C. Kindergarten College. 87 

For List of Kindergartens see.....!!!!! 89 


HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES AND 


SCHOOLS FOR NURSES. 

Alexian Brothers’ Hospital, Cath. 173 

Augustana Hospital, Swedish Luth.... 194 

Baptist Hospital. 172 

Charity Hospital. 21 

Emergency Hospital, Lutheran. 230 

German Hospital. 15u 

Hahneina n Hospital. 23(» 

Cook County Hospital. 232 


Ill. E. Hospital for Insane,Kankakee. 245 
Ill. N. “ Elgin ., 250 

Ill. Cen. “ “ Jacks’nv’le 249 

111. S. “ » Anna ... 247 

111. Hospital for Insane Criminals_ 249 


111. Eye and Ear Infirmary.254 

Light and Hope Hospital.220 

Marine Hospital, U S.250 

Maurice Porter Memorial. 92 

Mercy Hospital, Catholic. 176 

Michael Reese Hospital, Hebrew. 214 

Presbyterian Hospital. 203 

Provident Hospital, Colored. 101 

St. Elizabeth Hospital.182 

St, Joseph’s Hospital... 178 

St. Luke’s Hospital. 184 

Temperance Hospital. 140 

Wesley Hospital, Meth. W} 

Women’s and Children’s Hospital. 29 

Woman’s Hospital. 135 

For Dispensaries, see list. 60 


RELIEF AND LABOR. 

Bureau of Labor and Transportation. 116 


Chicago Relief and Aid Society. 42 

German Relief Society . 143 

Danish and Norwegian Relief Society. 145 

Illinois Industrial Association. 82 

G. A. R. Relief Corps.155 

School Children’s Aid Society. 102 

Soldier’s Home in Chicago. 160 

St. Andrew’s (Scotch) Society. 152 

St George’s (English) Association. 153 

Swiss Benevolent Society. 154 

United Hebrew Charities. 212 

PROTECTIVE. 

Bureau of Justice. 15 

Citizens’ League. 58 

III. Humane Society.!!!!!!!!! 78 

Protective Agency for Women and 

Children. 93 

Suppression of Vice.....!!!!!!!!!!! 134 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Bureau of Associated Charities. 120 

District Offices,Associated Charities.. 122 

Statistics of Church Charities. 6 

C. Exchange for Woman’s Work. 22 

C. Home for Incurables. 32 

Friendly Aid Society. 61 

Ill. Conference of Chariiies. 13 

Ill. Training School for Nurses. 82 

Jewish Manual Training School. 216 


The Armour institute. 

Social Settlement—List. 66 

The Civic Federation (Central Relief) 116 
Visitation and Aid Society, Catholic.. 181 

Visiting Nurse Association. 127 

Visiting Deaconesses. M. E. 197 

St. Mary’s Mission.P. Episc . 186 

Light and Hope Missionary Society... 22<5 
C. Medical Mission.22o 



























































































TABLE OF CONTENTS—CLASSIFIED 


GENERALCHARITIES (PRIVATE). 


Bureau of Justice.. 15 

Bureau of Labor and Transportation, 116 


Central Free Dispensary. 18 

C.El ring Woman’s Retugefor Reform 19 

Charity Hospital. 21 

C. Exchange for Woman’s Work. 22 

C. Home for the Friendless. 24 

C. Flower Mission. 28 

C. Hospital for Women and Children. 29 

C. Home for Incurables. 32 

C.Foundlings’ Home. 33 

C. Orphan Asylum. 35 

C. Nursery and Half Orphan Asylum.. 39 

C. Relief and Aid Society. 42 

Children’s Home Society. 49 

Children’s Aid Society. 51 

Citizens’ League. 58 

Friendly Aid Society . 61 

Home for Self-Supporting Women_ 62 

Hull House. 65 

111 Conference of Charities and Cor¬ 
rection... 13 

111.School of Agricult’re and Man.Train 67 

111. Industrial School for Girls. 73 

Ill. Humane Society. 78 

Ill, Training School for Nurses. 82 

Ill. Industrial Association . 83 

Kindergarten Associations. 85 

Lake Geneva Fresh Air Association... 91 

Maurice Porter Hospital. 92 

Margaret Etter Creche. 94 

Newsboys’ Home. 95 

Old People’s Home. 97 

Protective Agency for Women and 
Children. 98 

Provident Hospital and Training SchT lOi 

School Children’s Aid Society. 102 

Soldiers’ Home in Chicago. 160 

The Armour Institute. )05 

The C. Daily News Fresh Air Fund.... 107 

The Home for Crippled Children. lit 

T e Civic Federation (Central Relief). 116 

The Needlework Guild. 123 

The Working Woman’s Home Ass’n.. 124 

T he Mary A. Ahrens Mission. 171 

Visiting Nurse Association. 127 

Waifs’ Mission and Training School... 1H8 

Washingtonian Home. 129 

W. Society for the Suppression of Vice 134 

Woman’s Hospital of (Chicago. 135 

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 138 

COUNTY CHARITIES (PUBLIC). 

Relief Agent. 231 

Hospital. 232 

Insane Asylum. 234 

Infirmary. 236 


STATE CHARITIES (ILL. PUBLIC). 


SPECIAL CHARITIES. 

German Society of Chicago. 143 

German Old People’s Home. 147 

German Hospital. 150 

Danish Relief Society. 150 

Norwegian RexlerSociety. .... lol 

St. Andi ew’s (Scotch) Society. 152 

St.George’s (English) Benevolent Assn 153 

Swiss Benevolent Society. 154 

G. A. R.and W.R.O.and Ladies G.A.R. 155 

Soldiers’ Home. 160 

Masonic Orphans’ Home.161 

CHURCH CHARITIES. 

Protestant.— Undenominational. 162 

Chicago Erring Woman s Refuge. 19 

Chicago Home for the Friendless. 24 

Ligiit and Hope Missionary Society... 22o 

Old Peoples’Home. 97 

Y. W. Christian Association. 163 

Baptist . 172 

Hospital. 172 

Training School. yi2 

Catholic. 173 

Alexiaii Brothers’ Hospital. 173 

Chicago Indusi i ial School for Girls... 173 
St.Mary’s Industrial School for Boys.. 180 

Guardian Angel Orphan Asylum. 174 

House of the Good S epherd. 174 

Little Sisters of the Poor, N., S. and 

W. S. Homes. 176 

Mercy Hospital. 176 

St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. 182 

St. Joseph’s Homes, Hospital, etc. 177 

St. Vincent’s Infant .Asylum. 183 

Visitation and Aid Society. 181 


Episcopal (Protestant). 184 

Church Homes and Orphanage.189 

Convalescents’Home. 188 

St .lames’Day Nursery. 187 

St. Luke’s Hospital, etc. 184 

Lutheran. 193 

Augustana Hospital. 194 

Danish Children’s Home. 196 

Emergency Hospital. 230 

Geiman Deaconesses’ Home.166 

Uhlich Ev. L. Orphan Asylum. 193 

Swedish Home of Mercy. 230 

Methodist Episcopal. 197 

. Methodist Children’s Home.. 197 

Wesley Hospital. 197 

Presbyterian Hospital.203 

Hebrew, United Hebrew Charities.... 212 

Jewish Manual Training School. 216 

N. W. Charity Association. 215 


MISCELLANEOUS. 


111.State Board of Public Charities.... 238 
Ill. Home for Juvenile Fern. Offenders 238 
Ill. Eastern Hosp, for-Ins., Kankakee 245 
Ill.Northern Hospital for Insane,Elgin 250 
111. Cent. Hosp. for Ins., Jacksonville.. 249 
III.Southern Hospital for Insane,Anna 247 
Ill.Hosp. for Insane Criminals,Chester 252 
Ill.School for Deaf Mutes.Jacksonville 244 

Ill. School for Blind, Jacksonville. 242 

Ill School for Feeble Minded, Lincoln 240 
Ill.Soldiers and Sailors Orphans’Home 240 
Ill. Char. Eye and Ear Infirmary. 25< 
Ill. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home. 156 


Passavant Memorial Hospital.203 

Talcott Day Nursery (Universalist)... 206 

Unity Day Nursery (Unitarian).206 

Medical Mission and Workingmen’s 

Home, S. D. A. Ben. Assn. 220 

Light and Hope Hosp. and Home.220 

Salvation Army. 220 

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PREFACE. 


I HIS Hand-Book of Chicago’s Charities is issued 
\ in compliance with a resolution passed by the 
Illinois Conference of Charities and Correction, 
at its annual meeting, May 26th, 1892. 

The object is to put in permanent form a list and 
directory of the charitable societies of Chicago, and 
the State institutions, and to give as nearly as pos¬ 
sible ‘‘such data as will enable a business man to 
form an intelligent opinion on the relative scope and 

value of each organization.” 

A few organizations are not mentioned, as we have 
not sufficient assurance that they are acting in good 
faith and worthy of public confidence; others, be¬ 
cause they do not come within the scope and purport 
of our book; for example, some lines of church be¬ 
nevolence. Probably a few others are not included, 
as their existence was not known to us at the time of 
compilation, or, as we were furnished no information 
concerning them. Some are not reported as fully as 
others, or as fully as we think desirable, because they 
do not think it is for their interest to give full and 
specific data. Pictures are inserted whenever plates 
or photographs are furnished. 

It is hoped that this publication, though capable of 
improvement in the future, will still have a strong 
tendency to protect the charitable public, and to 
make the intelligent exercise of the philanthropic 
impulse safer and more universal—somewhat com¬ 
mensurate with our present and prospective needs, 
and in keeping with the growth and development of 
this great metropolis and commonwealth. 


Chicago, October ist, i8q2. 


9 




PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION. 


I HE former issues being exhausted, to supply the 
continued demand it is necessary to get out an¬ 
other edition. The opportunity is embraced to make 
such corrections as are made necessary by changes 
in location, or name or form of organization. No 
other alterations have been deemed necessary, the 
Bureau of Associated Charities and the Bureau of 
Labor and Transportation being but variations in the 
form of organization of the Central Relief Association 
of 1893, the former assuming its registration, refer¬ 
ence and districts, the latter its labor and transporta¬ 
tion departments. (See pages 116-118.) 

The purpose of the Hand-Book of Charities is and 
has been from the first, as appears from the preced¬ 
ing introductions, to include in its reports only such 
charities as have received recognition from the other 
charities, or such as are in good and regular stand¬ 
ing, and to give such data concerning them as will 
enable a business man to form an intelligent opinion 
of their scope and relative value. 

This being our aim, it is not deemed essential to 
give a report covering the very last year’s work, 
though this is done wherever the information was 
furnished. In some cases the last year’s work did 
not give as correct an average as some former year’s 
statement. Indeed, it will be found in the case of 
many if not all the charities that were without en¬ 
dowments that the activities of the last year fell be¬ 
low the average, as they were crippled for lack of 
funds through the excessive stringency of the money 
market, and the demands on them were in an inverse 
ratio to their support. 

Chicago, March 1 st, I8 qj. JoHN ViSHER. 

10 



INTRODUCTION. 


Looking through this little book, one is astonished 
to find how many agencies have sprung into existence 
to meet the demands made upon the charities of the 
public; how much money and efforts are continually 
being devoted to the relief of want and distress, and 
that notwithstanding all this, there come at intervals, 
great waves of want like that felt in this city in the 
winter of 1893, and in the present winter, when all 
these agencies seem to be inadequate to meet the 
emergencies. There has never before been a time 
when such large masses of people live so near the 
line of want; or when so much study has been devoted 
to the means of bringing about a better condition of 
things; when so many of the comforts of life could be 
had at so small a price; when great fortunes were so 
easily made, and perhaps I may say, when the benev¬ 
olent heart was more easily reached in behalf of the 
needy. 

Reflecting upon these conditions, one cannot help 
thinking there must be something radically wrong. 
No doubt much of the distress comes from the lack 
of that reasonable economy which lays by something 
for a rainy day. But is there not some cause deeper 
than this; some cause whose constant tendency is to 
make the acquisition of the comforts of life more 
difficult to the great mass of the people who work 
with their hands? May we not find something of this 
in the false notions which bring so many into cities to 
be dependent upon temporarily and poorly paid 

11 



12 


INTRODUCTION. 


employments, instead of remaining in the country, 
where a much more certain and ample support is to 
be gotten out of the land; and still more in the great 
laws of descent and wills, whose operations go on 
night and day and in all weather, casting their bounties 
into idle hands, instead of distributing them in a way 
that they would not only have to be employed by their 
recipients, but would be more accessable to enterprise 
and industry? The questions which confront the 
reformer are larger than the furnishing temporary aid. 
It is true, the starving can not wait the slow process 
of bringing about great social reform. The little 
child thrown upon the world must have kind hands 
to receive it; the unfortunate must be relieved and 
the unemployed transplanted to where his labor is 
profitable and needed. And so all the various agencies 
enumerated in this book are needed, and perhaps 
there will never come a time when they will not be 
needed, but they should only be the convenient 
agencies to take care of the exceptional and incidental 
cases, which may be expected to occur under the best 
social conditions. 

Believing as I do, that my friend, Mr. Visher, has 
in this book presented to the patrons of the various 
institutions represented, such information as will 
enable them to form a fair estimate of the good that 
is being accomplished with their bounties; and has at 
the same time presented many statistics and practical 
results, most valuable to the student of sociology; 
and as I have myself consulted the former editions 
with profit, I most heartily add my good wishes for 
the success of this edition. Harvey B. Hurd, 


THE ILLINOIS CONFERENCE OF CHAR¬ 
ITIES AND CORRECTION. 

The Conference was organized May 26, 1891, at 
a meeting held at the Union League Club, Chicago, 
called by Harvey B. Hurd, at the instance of the 
presidents of several of the leading charities of Chi¬ 
cago. Representatives of fifty societies were present. 

The articles of organization adopted entitled each 
society doing charitable or correctional work to a 
representation by two duly accredited delegates, and 
make the presidents members ex-officio. 

ARTICLE H. 

“The purpose shall be the promotion of the com¬ 
mon interests of the charitable, correctional and 
philanthropic institutions of the State; to collect and 
disseminate information concerning their work; to 
hold conferences for the interchange of opinions and 
the comparison of methods; to engage in such work 
as can be best done only through joint effort, and 
adopt such measures as will tend to secure greater 
efficiency, co-operation and economy.” 

ARTICLE VI. 

“It shall be the duty of the executive committee 
to make annually a list of the incorporated charita¬ 
ble and correctional institutions of the city of Chi- 

13 


14 ILLINOIS CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES 

cago and the State of Illinois which are members of 
this Conference and which in the judgment of the 
committee are entitled to public confidence. This 
shall be open to inspection—may be added to and 
taken from or otherwise corrected by the Conference 
at any of its regular meetings. Certificates of mem¬ 
bership and confidence shall be granted to the afore¬ 
said organizations upon application. Such certifi¬ 
cates shall be signed by the President and Secretary 
of the executive committee. Upon request of any 
of said societies, certificates shall be issued to their 
solicitors. The form of all such certificates shall be 
prescribed by the executive committee.” 

The first annual meeting was held at the Sherman 
House, May 26, 1892; the second, March ii, 1893. 
The attendance at both was full and representative. 
An Executive Committee is selected at the annual 
meetings, for a term of one year. 

This committee, in accordance with the provisions 
o f the bove articles of organization, issues the 
Hand-book of Charities,and when called for, its sys¬ 
tem of Certificates of Confidence. 

OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

Harvey B. Hurd, President, 

94 Washington Street, Room 28. 
John Visher, Secretary, 

94 Washington Street, Room 28. 
Charles M. Faye, Treasurer, 

123 Fifth Ave., Office of the Daily News. 
Richard S. Tuthill Joseph W. Errant 

C. H. S. Mixer Milton George 

Mrs. M. R. M. Wallace Mrs. Loyis Schram 


GENERAL CHARITIES. 


BUREAU OF ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. 

(See page 120.) 

BUREAU OF LABOR AND TRANSPORTATION. 

(See page 116.) 


BUREAU OF JUSTICE. 

Suite 310, 59 Dearborn Street. 

Objects: “To assist in securing legal protection 
against injustice for those who are unable to protect 
themselves; to take cognizance of the workings of 
existing laws and methods of procedure, and to 
suggest improvements; to propose new and better 
laws, and to make efforts toward securing their 
enactment.” 

The Bureau in its annual reports recommends 
reforms such as making seduction an offense against 
the State, adoption of better measures for securing 
support from husbands for wives and children, super¬ 
vising mutual benefit societies, protecting the inno¬ 
cent and friendless in the police courts, returning an 
equitable share of payments on ‘‘time sales” if fore¬ 
closed, establishing a chattel mortgage loan bank,etc. 

The Bureau employs a solicitor a part of the 
time, has no religious affiliations or endowments, 
and owns no property. 


15 



Work of the Bureau of Justice from Organization 

UP TO January, 1897 . 


Cases Involving : 

1888 

to 

1890 

1891 

1892 

1893 

1894 

1895 

Total 

Chattel mortgage matters. 

352 

174 

147 

138 

267 

1 431 

1,509 

Personal property. 

177 

135 

139 

122 

161 

1 190 

924 

Landlord and tenant. 

327 

158 

183 

213 

235 

194 

1,310 

Threatened exemptions. 

86 

48 

43 

50 

47 

1 63 

337 

Pros, for cruel treatment. 

59 

46 

52 

26 

4S 

40 

266 

Prosecution of crime. 

42 

22 

61 

50 

31 

71 

277 

Prosecution of fraud. 

81 

88 

90 

81 

78 

87 

505 

Prosecutions by suits, etc. 

73 

27 

20 

33 

38 

184 

375 

Support of parents. 

22 

18 

22 

13 

22 

9 

106 

Support of childreh . 

52 

' 44 

37 

28 

36 

44 

241 

Support, etc., for wives. 

337 

219 

284 

231 

174 

213 

1467 

Pros, under ordinances. 

21 

38 

39 

12 

39 

17 

166 

Wrongs to women and girls ... 

43 

61 

66 

40 

39 

36 

285 

Employer and employee. 

1006 

819 

880 

1958 

1949 

1929 

8541 

Real property. 

74 

37 

49 

45 

97 

120 

1422 

Wages under lien law. 

237 

79 

45 

74 

17 

67 

519 

Other wages claims. 

1784 

587 

624 

606 

316 

328 

4245 

Miscellaneous work. 

617 

98 

145 

258 

98 

216 

1432 

Miscellaneous advice. 

2045 

825 

1094 

903 

1409 

978 

7254 

' Total. 

7444 

3523 

4020 

4881 

5096 

5217 

30181 

Statement of Wages Claims. 








Taken for collection. 

2021 

666 






Collected. 

1376 

526 

642 

47o 

165 

309 

3488 

Amount collected. 

$19316 

$8204 

8852 

6139 

2290 

3246 

$48050 

Average claim. 

$1523 

$15.')9 

1378 

1306 

1388 

1050 

$1349 

Other money claims. 

$6924 

$1673 

$1131 

260 

680 

1026 

$11714 

Record of Court Work. 








Civil suits. 

690 

303 

256 

272 

138 

159 

1818 

Criminal suits. 

72 

20 

17 

12 

10 

15 

146 

Quasi-criminal suits. 

63 

34 

24 

22 

14 

19 

176 

Suits prosecuted. 

759 

333 

280 

291 

150 

175 

2140 

1988 

Suits defended. 

66 

24 

17 

15 

12 

18 

152 

Civil suits prosecuted.. 

673 

287 

246 

263 

132 

152 

2140 

1763 

Civil suits defended. 

17 

16 

10 

9 

6 

7 

65 

Criminal suits prosecuted. 

52 

14 

20 

9 

7| 

10 

112 

Criminal suits defended. 

20 

6 

4 

3 

3 

5 

41 

Quasi-criminal prosecuted_ 

35 

30 

14 

16 

11 

3 

13 

118 

Quasi-criminal defended. 

28 

4 

3 

7 

6 

51 








2140 


Of the 2,140 cases, the Bureau was successful in 1,926 cases; unsuccessful 
in 107 ; and 107 were withdrawn. 

Of the 3)4^^ wages claims collected, 2,676 were collected without suit. 

The receipts for 1896 were: From donations, $ 3 , 760 . 46 ; from clients, 
5258 . 53 . The expenditures were, $ 3 , 777 . 98 . 

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bureau of justice 


CASES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE WORK OF THE BUREAU 
OF JUSTICE. 

With the help of the Bureau, K. prosecuted an 
officer who had without provocation shot him, and 
obtained his conviction. Many of the officers of the 
district made it thereafter their business to harass 
him, and cause his arrest. The Bureau appeared 
in court to protect. 

Mrs. S. borrowed $20 on household goods, giving 
a chattel mortgage. When she came to the Bureau 
she had already paid $17.50 in 6 months, and $14 
were still claimed as due. She was absolutely pen¬ 
niless. A friend advanced a small loan, and with 
this settlement was made, preventing foreclosure, 
saving money to her. She has since paid back the 
loan. 

C. has abandoned his wife and children and con¬ 
tributes nothing to their support. The Bureau caused 
his arrest for abandonment and compelled him to 
contribute regularly to the support of his family. 

F. B. Tobey, President. 

James A. Hunt, Vice-President. 

C. E. Kremer, Treasurer. 

Edward C. Wentworth, Secretary. 

Joseph W. Errant, Counsel. 

W. H. Trover, Attorney. 

George J. Walters, Assistant Attorney. 

Emma Willard, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer. 

Directors: Chas. H. Aldrich, C. R. Corbin, H. 

B. Cragin, Mrs. John C. Coonley, Henry C. Lytton, 
M. R. Kultchar, F. J. Loesch, Wm. M. Salter, A. L. 
Singer, Dr. Julia Holmes Smith. 


CENTRAL FREE DISPENSARY. 

Corner of Wood and Harrison Sts. 

Object: “To furnish the sick poor with medical 
attendance and medicines gratuitously.” 


EXTRACT FROM THE 30TH (THIRTIETH) ANNUAL REPORT, 
NOVEMBER 30, 1896. 

Incorporated April i, 1873 . 


Total number of patients... 

Number of visits of patients to the Dispensary 

Number of visits to homes of patients. 

Number of prescriptions furnished. 

Number of patients refused treatment. 

Cost of conducting the Dispensary last year.. 
Average cost of each patient for attendance 
(11,622) and medicines for current year.. 

Cost of each visit (28,107 visits). 

Cost of each prescription (31,716). 

Voluntary contributions of patients toward 
the support of the Dispensary. 


From 1867 to 1895 
inclusive. 

29 years. 

For the 12 
mos. ending 
Mar. 31 , ’ 96 . 

336,828 

11,622 

616,145 

27,751 

103,723 

356 

732,62-) 

31,716 

2,059 

61 

$4,021.00 


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$938.00 



The Dispensary is open from 9 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. 
daily. The support is from investments, amounting to 
$25,000, and donations. There is no paid solicitor. 
There are no religious affiliations. The expenditures 
were $4,021.00. No building is owned. Rush Medi¬ 
cal College furnishing accommodations at a small 
rental. 

Henry S. Burkhart, President. 

Thos. N. Bond, Treasurer. 

Dr. Philip Adolphus, Superintendent. 

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CHICAGO ERRING WOMAN REFUGE FOR 
REFORM. 

5024 Indiana Ave. 

Objects: “The relief, protection, care and refor¬ 
mation of such erring females as may voluntarily 
place themselves under its care, or may be so placed 
by their parents, guardians, or by any municipal 
corporation, or otherwise according to law.” 

The 30th annual report shows 181 girls cared for 
during the year, a daily average of 95. Of these, 
73 left, returning to friends; 23 are self-supporting, 
5 went to other institutions, and i died. Of the total 
number admitted, 57 were 16 years old or under. 
During the year 22 infants were cared for, 10 being 
born in the Homt; 3 died and 7 were taken by the 
mothers, leaving 12 on hand in charge of their 
mothers. 

The management aids the inmates in securing sit¬ 
uations, and such as gave evidence of fitness have 
been placed in private family homes, in the country, 
through the Bureau of Labor and Transportation. 

The receipts for the year ending Feb. i, 1896, 
were $12,497.08, expenditures, $11,226.40. The sup¬ 
port is, from rents, $3,600; city fines, $3,677; work by 
inmates, $304.79; donations, $1,165, and board, 
$1,855. The society owns its own home, besides a 
block of stores southeast corner of Indiana Avenue 
and 31st Street, and its former home. It has no paid 
solicitors. Its religious affiliations are Protestant, as 

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its charter provides that the Board of Managers 
shall include not less than one member of each Prot¬ 
estant church in Chicago. 

Mrs. L.-B. Doud, President. 

Mrs. E. O. F. Roler, Treasurer. 

Helen M. Woods, Superintendent. 

Mrs. E. J. Wiggin Corresponding Secretary. 


CHARITY HOSPITAL. 

2407 Dearborn St. 

Object: “To give medical and surgical care to 
destitute sick, free of charge.” The hospital is con¬ 
ducted in a rented three-story private residence. It 
can accommodate some twenty patients. It is in 
charge of a lady superintendent with assistants. 
The operations and prescriptions are made with the 
aid of the students of the Post Graduate College, 
who, after the manner of clinics, pay a fee for the 
privilege. These fees and voluntary contributions 
support the enterprise. 


CHICAGO EXCHANGE FOR WOMAN^S 

WORK. 

130 Wabash Ave. 

Object: “To provide a depot for the • reception 

and sale of any marketable article which a woman 
can make in her own home, or any valuable article 
which her necessities oblige her to dispose of, 
thereby assisting a needy woman to turn to personal 
profit whatever useful talent she may possess. To 
develop a spirit of healthy independence, to help 
women who are striving to help themselves. 

“The association is composed of ladies and gentle¬ 
men who subscribe ^5.00 a year. It is a philanthropy 
rather than a charity.” 

THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1893 SHOWS: 


RECEIPTS. 

In Bank March i, 1893. $ 3,994.07 

Membership subscriptions 565.00 

Depositors’ dues. 925.00 

Salesofcake. 17,032.13 

Sales of fruit. 11853.17 

Sales of fancy goods.6.717.19 

Extra commission. 

Interest. 225.00 

Receipts—Lunch Room_ 59,694.60 

Miscellaneous. 1,390.01 


Total.$92,306.68 


OUTLAY. 


Rent.$ 9,299.98 

Salaries. 3.733-93 

Janitors. 529.00 

Invested. 1,983.21 

Paid depositors. 22,067.52 

Lunch Room expenses _ 50,635.92 

Miscellaneous. 2,336.09 

In Bank. 720.02 


Total outlay..$92,306.63 


ASSETS. 


Cash on hand March i, 1894. $ 720.02 

Bonds. 5,000.00 

Furniture, etc.2,127.57 


The Exchange has thus paid 1^22,067.52 to its 
consignors, needy but self-supporting women, for 
work in its different departments. 

The only source of revenue is from the ten per 

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cent commission charged for the sale of goods, the 
five dollar each from upwards of 100 annual sub¬ 
scribers, and the consignors’ annual fee of one dollar. 
No solicitors are employed, no buildings are owned, 
and there are no religious affiliations. 

Mrs. John B. Lyon, President. 

MesdamesH. T. N. Pickering, Newton Lull, A. 
Courtney Campbell, Vice-Presidents. 

Miss Kate Gerts. Recording Secretary. 

Mrs. Clinton J. Warren, Miss Ida M. Morris, 
and Miss Ida King, Corresponding Secretaries. 


CHICAGO HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS. 

1926 Wabash Ave. 

Object; ‘^Founded in 1858 as a Protestant insti¬ 
tution to afford protection and employment or 
assistance to worthy destitute women and children, 
until other homes and means of support can be 
secured for them.” 

‘‘It supplies shelter, food and clothing to worthy 
applicants, irrespective of creed, color or nationality, 
helps women to obtain employment, cares for home¬ 
less children until their mothers procure work and 
are enabled to provide for them; and receives women 
and children in transit through the city, who by ac¬ 
cident or emergency, find themselves in need.” 

During the past twenty-five years, its inmates have 
numbered over 40,000. During 1896 the number ad¬ 
mitted was 844 women and 1,153 children, making a 
total of 1,997. Of .those, 1,534 were protestants, 
392 Roman Catholics, 70 Hebrews and one unknown. 
Homes were provided for 43 children ; 18 were sur¬ 
rendered to the Home. The Home conducts within 
its walls a graded free school, endowed by Jonathan 
Burr, for children in the Home and scholars from 
without, which enrolled during the year 345 pupils, 
with an average daily attendance of 75. 

A kindergarten school is provided for the smaller 
children in the Home. 

Three of Chicago’s generous citizens have united to 
erect for the Home for the Friendless a larger and 
more commodious building at the corner of 51st 
Street and Vincennes Avenue. 

This munificent gift is nearly completed and will 
be occupied during the present year. 

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CHICAGO HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS. 


Burr Mission Free Chapel (unsectarian), 23d 
St. and Wentworth Ave. 

It was founded by Jonathan Burr in 1867, and is 
under the control of the Board of Managers of the 
Home for the Friendless. It employs a chaplain for 
religious services, maintains a Sunday school, a day 
school free to the poor children of the neighborhood, 
and a reading room for evening use of men and boys. 
It enrolled during 1896, 114 pupils, 70 girls and 44 
boys, with an average daily attendance of 54. 

The expenses for 1896 were: For the Home, $20,- 
417-33; the Home school, ^1,482.57; the Burr Mis¬ 
sion, ^4,239.57; total, ^26,139.47. The receipts for 
1896 were: From endowments, $25,264.80, and do¬ 
nations, $604.12. No solicitors are employed. The 
Home owns its buildings and grounds; has received 
gifts and bequests from Jonathan Burr, George 
Smith, Henry Hobart Taylor and John Crerar, Mrs. 
Louisa Haddock and Hugo J. Palmer, all of 
Chicago. 

Its officers are a president, vice-president, treas¬ 
urer and secretary, and a board of managers consist¬ 
ing of ladies from each Protestant and Hebrew de¬ 
nomination. 

Mr. a. C. Bartlett, President. 

Mr. F. D. Gray, Vice-President. 

Mr. W. C. Nichols, Treasurer. 

Mrs. Charles Gilbert Wheeler, Recording Sec¬ 
retary. 

Mrs. F. a. Smith, Corresponding Secretary. 

Miss Alma Z. Rexford, Matron and Superintendent. 

illustrative cases of home for the friendless. 

It is a pleasure to receive letters like the following, 
telling of a home made bright by the presence of a 
one-time “Home” baby. It might be duplicated 
many times could we follow up the life-history of all 
those who leave us to fill the void in childless homes: 


CHICAGO HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS. 


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“-, Dec. 24, 1896. 

“To THE Friends at the Home: —Another Christ¬ 
mas has arrived, and we enclose herein draft for $io. 
Use it as it may seem best for the little ones, and we 
shall be satisfied. How time does fly! Our little 
girl, who came to us from the Home when but ten 
weeks old, is now a rollicking school girl of eleven 
years. Of all the real pleasures and joys that have 
come to our home, this little maiden has brought a 
thousand times the most. She has developed so 
nicely, and stands at the very head of all her classes, 
and is advancing so rapidly in her music, that we 
feel as if we had no “baby” any more. Her health 
is perfect now, but for sometime of winters she was 
troubled somewhat with a catarrhal affection, and 
last winter we took her to California and spent the 
entire winter there with her, and she played out of 
doors all the time and we brought her home in the 
spring perfectly well, so this winter we are remain¬ 
ing in this climate. She has developed into one of 
the most beautiful children in this city aud is so rec¬ 
ognized by all. To-night she takes a prominent part 
in a Christmas Cantata in one of the city churches, 
and of course we are very proud of her. Wishing 
you all at the Home a Merry Christmas and a Happy 
New Year, we remain your friends, 

Mr. and Mrs.-.” 

A letter just received (Feb. 12) from parties who 
took a twelve year-old girl from the Home about 

three years ago says that “M-is well and going 

to high school this winter. She is getting along real 
well with her studies, and expects some time to be 
a teacher.” 






CHICAGO FLOWER MISSION. 


Athenaeum Building. 

Object: To distribute bouquets and flowers 

among the sick in hospitals and elsewhere. 

The Flower Mission began its work in 1874 in 
Unity Church parlors; ever since it has enjoyed the 
free hospitality of the Athenaeum, its work being 
conducted on undenominational and purely philan¬ 
thropic lines. Branch societies are organized in the 
suburban towns, and from these and the country at 
large baskets and boxes of flowers are sent to it, 
and every Wednesday morning made up into bou¬ 
quets by the ladies of the Mission. During the 
season of last year, from the middle of May to the 
middle of October, 16,568 bouquets, 161 boxes and 
89 baskets of flowers were distributed, principally 
among the hospitals of the city. The entire ex¬ 
pense of this work was ;J>8o. 15, the express compa¬ 
nies carrying free of charge. 

The Carriage Fund.—This is a special feature, 
devoted to the giving of rides to convalescents 
at hospitals. The average annual expenditure for 
this is $70, for which 345 persons are given a drive 
through the parks in phaetons. The Mission de¬ 
pends on voluntary donations, has no solicitors or 
other paid officers or endowments. 

Mrs. Frederick Dickinson, President; Mrs. Alvah 
Perry, Treasurer; Miss Mabelle Sturgis, Cor. Sec. 

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MARY THOMPSON HOSPITAL OF CHI¬ 
CAGO FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 

Corner Adams and Paulina Sts. 

Dispensary. 

School for Nurses. 

Clinics. 

“The objects of the corporation shall be to pro¬ 
vide (i) medical and surgical aid, by women phy¬ 
sicians, for women and children; (2) to assist wom¬ 
en physicians by clinical and other instruction in 
a more thorough preparation for the practice of their 
profession; (3) to train nurses for the better care of 
the sick and wounded.” 

Classes of cases admitted are women for confine¬ 
ment, women and children for operations, women 
and children with any disease not contagious or in¬ 
curable. 

The following is the record of patients treated 
during the three years ending March i, 1896: 


Number of patients in the house March 1, 1895. 5,757 

“ admitted . 1,492 

“ treated in the dispensary. 6,314 

“ visited at their homes. 2,287 

Total. 10,650 

CLASSIFICATION OF CASES IN THE HOUSE. 

Gynaecological. 496 

Obstetrical. 252 

Medical, adults .. 215 

Medical, Children. 150 

Surgical, adults. 276 

Surgical, children. 82 

Diseases of the eye and ear. 28 

Total. 1,499 

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Of the 317 patients treated in the gynaecological 
department 228 left the hospital well, 62 were 
improved, 18 were unimproved and 9 died. 

Of the 279 patients treated in the Medical Depart¬ 
ment 170 recovered, 52 were improved, 27 were 
discharged in the same condition, and thirty died. 

Three adult surgical cases were unimproved, and 56 
were discharged well or improved. In the surgical 
department for children 3 died, 26 were discharged 
well or improved. 

THE SCHOOL FOR NURSES. 

The following are the statistics of the School for 
Nurses from March i, 1893, to March i, 1896: 


Number of nurses in house . 19 

Entered school since that time. 51 

Graduated. 19 

Finished their course. 20 

Nurses in house March 1, 1893. 21 

ApiJlications to enter the school. 121 


The Dispensary.—Connected with the Hospital 
is a free Dispensary, which is open every day in 
the week, except Sunday, from i to 3 o’clock p. m. 
This is under the care of the Dispensary physicians, 
each in turn devoting one afternoon a week to the 
worthy poor. A small charge is made for medicines. 

Clinics.—The hospital also has classes for women 
physicians, giving them hospital experience and 
practical object lessons in surgery and medicines. 

Since the opening, the hospital has treated more 
than 20,000 patients, and it graduates yearly a class 
of 20 nurses who take a two years’ “course of train¬ 
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MARY THOMPSON HOSPITAL 


RECEIPTS FROM MARCH, 1895, tO MARCH, 1896. 


Cash on hand March, 1895 .$ 520.41 

« from private patients. 4,485.04 

“ “ ward patients. 2,751.84 

« contributions. 2,599.70 

« « charity ball. 2,529.00 

“ endowments. 3,013.00 

« “ miscellaneous sources. 1,914.24 


Total.$17,813.23 

Disbursements.$17,796.67 


BOARD OF MANAGERS. 

Mrs. Archibald MacArthur, President. 

Mrs. Charles Fitzsimons and Mrs, E G. Clark, 
Vice-Presidents. 

Mrs. Jewett E. Ricker, Treasurer. 

Mrs. George Oberne, 1147 N. Clark Street, Sec¬ 
retary. 

Marie J. Mergler, M. D., 34 Washington Street, 
Head Physician. 

CHICAGO HOME FOR INCURABLES. 

Ellis Ave., Cor. 56TH St. 

Object: “To furnish the incurable sick a home.” 
The Home accommodates 130 persons—its maximum 
capacity—males as well as females. It is supported 
entirely by endowments. It owns spacious buildings 
and grounds; has no solicitors and no religious affil¬ 
iations. 

H. N. Higinbotham, President; Byron L. Smith, 
Treasurer. 












CHICAGO FOUNDLINGS^ HOME. 


114 S. Wood St. 

Objects: To care for mothers and babies free cf 
charge. 

During the year 1893, 505 different inmates were 
cared for, of which number 258 were infants. 196 
were accompanied by the mothers, who are allowed 
to remain until the adoption of their children, or 
until places are provided where they can work with 
them. None are admitted for a less time than five 
weeks. 

Mortality of infants, 14 per cent. Adoptions, 34 
in number. Total number of infants admitted since 
the beginning of the work in Jan. 1871, 5,891. 
Mothers, 2,373. Total number of adoptions, i;379. 
The Home is sustained by voluntary contributions. 
It employs no solicitor. It owns its buildings free 
from incumbrance. 

Amount expended during 1893, ^5,497.68. The 
religious affiliations of the Home are Protestant, 
but it does not affiliate with any particular one of its 
sects. There is no Board of Managers. Dr. George 
E. Shipman was its founder, and until the time of 
his death, Jan. 19, 1893, its superintendent. Sub¬ 
sequently his wife was elected superintendent, and 
his daughter secretary. 

Visiting day, Tuesday of each week. Hours from 
II A. M. to 4 P. M. 

Mrs. Fannie E. Shipman, Superintendent. 

Miss Francis C. Shipman, Secretary. 


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CHICAGO ORPHAN ASYLUM. 

2228 Michigan Ave. 

[Incorporated in 1849.] 

Objects: “The protecting, relieving, educating 
of, and providing means of support and maintenance 
for orphan and destitute children. ” 

The founding of this asylum, the oldest in the 
city, dates from the cholera epidemic in 1849, when 
many little children were bereft, of care and 
support through the death of their parents. During 
these forty-five years it has furnished protection and 
training to more than 5,000 children. 

December i, 1892, the asylum had 218 children. 
During the year 421 have applied for admittance; 
of this number, 229 were received (of boys, 139; 
girls, 90). During the same period 217 have been 
dismissed, leaving at the present time 230 inmates. 
The average for the year has been the largest it has 
ever had, viz., 227. Catholics, 92; Protestants, 302; 
Jews, 26. 

The ages of the applicants were: Under two years, 
74; between two and seven years, 190; between seven 
and twelve years, 154; over twelve years, 3. Of the 
children admitted, 71 have been deserted by fathers, 
6 deserted by mothers, 5 deserted by both parents; 
8 have insane mothers, ii are orphans, and 115 
half-orphans. Of the children dismissed, 19 were 
taken by parents or friends, ii were adopted into 
homes, i sent to the Industrial School of the Home 
for the Friendless, and 9 died. 

There are now 124 children in attendance at the 
Moseley School, and 94 have been enrolled during 

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CHICAGO ORPHAN ASYLUM 


the year in the home school, or kindergarten— a 
primary grade—the average attendance being 49. 

The support is from investments, board and do¬ 
nations solicited by the trustees through circular 
letters, dispensing with paid solicitors. 

The receipts during 1893 were: ^722.48 from do¬ 
nations, ^§8,534. 06 from board, .^4,000 from bequests, 
and ^14,473.29 from investments, and $y,$oo from 
loans paid in. The disbursements were $21,050 in 
loans and investments, and $22,679.82 in current 
expenses. 

The report says: “Many very pleasing and touch¬ 
ing incidents have transpired during the year, one 
in particular, where two sisters, adopted by differ¬ 
ent parties when they were very young, their homes 
widely separated, and both now married, met here 
(by appointment) for the first time after this long 
lapse of years. 

The number admitted in 1896 was 152—in asylum, 
Dec. I, 1896, 179. Receipts (1896) from donations, 
$12,683; from board, $5,067. Total, $24,533. Dis¬ 
bursements, $24,242. 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 

Charles L. Hutchinson, President. 

John M. Clark, Vice-President. 

Frederick B. Tutt, Secretary. 

Ernest A. Hamill, Treasurer. 

officers of the board of managers. 

Miss Sarah M. Horton, President. 

Mrs. George W. Darrow, Vice-President. 

Mrs. J. a. Edwards, Recording Secretary. 

Mrs. John L. Corthell, Corresponding Secretary. 

Mrs. Harry W. Getz, Treasurer, 


CHICAGO NURSERY AND HALF-ORPHAN 
ASYLUM. 

855 N. Halsted. 

* [Incorporated i860.] 

"Its object shall be the care and maintenance of 
the children of poor women, for the purpose of en¬ 
abling them to find employment; also the care and 
maintenance of such children as are deprived by 
death, or other cause, of either parent. Girls are 
admitted under 12 years, boys under ii years. Girls 
are dismissed at 14 years, boys at 12 years of age.” 

At its first organization the institution was a day 
nursery, charging 5 cents for the care, by day, of chil¬ 
dren whose mothers went out to work 

Active membership in the society is open to any 
person contributing to its funds, regardless of de¬ 
nominational connections. The Board of Managers, 
elected annually by the members,consists of not less 
than nine ladies. The 33rd annual report (1893) 
shows: 



1890 

1891 

1892 

1893 

Average number of children.. 

. 135 

152 

168 

iCg 

Average number of inmates... 

. 143 

171 

174 

192 

Children died. 

. H 

6 

19 

9 

Average number in Nursery ., 

. 32 

49 

54 

72 

Average number in School.... 

. 107 

116 

116 

135 

Children left Asylum. 

. 142 

139 

161 

159 

Articles cut out. 


2;299 

2,002 

2,914 

Articles sewed. 

. 5.752 

7,666 

16,523 

7,011 

Stockings darned by class. ... 


4-943 

5,223 

6,125 

Work by class.... 

. 3,368 

6,615 

5,092 

6,750 

THE 

RECEIPTS were: 



Cash donations.. 

. $ 5,823 

5,823 

4,409 

4,400 

Board of inmates. 

. 2,678 

4,678 

4,501 

4,501 

Investments. 

. 9,149 

7,599 

9,492 

9,492 

Total. 

. $ 19,650 

$ 18,091 

$ 18,403 

$ 18,162 


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Securities held.. ;^i38,675 

Furnishing funds. 8,000 

Bed endowment fund. 4? 300 


The buildings are owned; there are no solicitors 
employed. 

AN ILLUSTRATIVE CASE. 

Maggie P. was placed in the asylum at the age 
of ten by her mother, a poor widow, who paid $1.00 
a week towards her maintenance. When the child 
was fourteen, her mother, still unable to assume the 
charge, requested the Board to place her into a private 
home where, in exchange for her services, she is 
attending school,with a view to fitting herself for a 
teacher and becoming the support, not only of her¬ 
self, but also of her mother in her old age. 

Mrs. Wm. C. Goudy, President. 

Mrs. Abijah Kent, First Vice-President. 

Mrs. H. J. Berry, Second Vice-President. 

Mrs. Franklin H. Beckwith, Secretary. 

Miss E. F. Stillwell, Assistant Secretary. 

Miss S. E. Hurlbut, Treasurer. 

Miss E. M. Fuller, Matron. 





CHICAGO RELIEF AND AID SOCIETY. 

51-53 LaSalle Street. 

[Incorporated by special charter 1857.] 

Endowed Charities. 

Relief Department. 

Branch Offices—North, South, West Sides. 
Wood Yards—North and South Sides. 

Objects: Charter — Sec. 2. The objects of this 
corporation shall be strictly of an eleemosynary na¬ 
ture; they shall be to provide a permanent, efficient, 
and practical mode of administering and distribut¬ 
ing the private charities of the city of Chicago; to 
examine and establish the necessary means for ob¬ 
taining full and reliable information of the condi¬ 
tion and wants of the poor of said city, and putting 
into practical and efficient operation the best sys¬ 
tem of relieving and preventing want and pauper¬ 
ism therein. 

Constitution —/. In carrying out the objects of 
this society as indicated in the act of incorporation, 
it shall be the end aimed at, not only to afford tem¬ 
porary relief to the destitute, but also by rendering 
timely counsel and assistance to deserving but in¬ 
digent persons, to place them above the necessity of 
aid; and without positively limiting itself to any 
one class in the distribution of its charities, the 
society shall discriminate in favor of those in whom 
habits of temperance, industry and thrift, give 
promise of permanent benefit from the aid furnished, 
and shall not embrace in the sphere of its operations 
such as are the proper subjects for the poor-house 
or for the action of the county officers. 

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RELIEF AND AID SOCIETY 


Endowed Charities. 


In answer to a call signed by Wirt Dexter, presi¬ 
dent of the “Christian Union,” J. L. Reynolds, pres¬ 
ident of the “Citizens’ Relief,” and Dwight L. 
Moody, president of the Y. M. C. A., a meeting 
was held Nov. ii, 1867, and a consolidation effected 
of these societies and the Chicago Relief and Aid, 
the organization of the latter antedating the others, 
and the objects being similar. 

At the time of the great Chicago fire in 1871, the 
Relief and Aid Society, by common consent as well 
as by formal action of the Common Council, was 
entrusted with the disbursement of the relief funds 
and food and clothing which poured in from all 
parts of our country and the civilized world—more 
than ^7,000,000. As a large part of the great dis¬ 
tress could be relieved only through asylums and 
hospitals, and as these also were either destroyed 
or impoverished by the fire, or inadequate for meet¬ 
ing the extraordinary demands suddenly made on 
them, the management of the Relief and Aid Society 
appropriated $432,900 to the following institutions: 


Chicago Nursery & Half Or¬ 
phan Asylum. $ 25,000 

St. Joseph’s Hospital. 30,000 

St. Luke’s Hospital. 28,000 

Chicago Protestant Orphan Asy¬ 
lum . 10,000 

Mercy Hospital. 40,000 

House of the Good Shepherd.. 16,500 

Scammon Hospital. 15,000 

Alexian Bros.’ Hospital. 18,000 

St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum... 30,000 
Newsboys’& Bootblacks’Home 12,000 
Home for the Friendless. 30,000 


Deaconess’ Hospital. 25,000 

Chicago Foundlings’ Home.. 10,000 

Eye and Ear Infirmary. 25,000 

Women’s and Children’s Hos¬ 
pital . 25,000 

Uhlich Orphan Asylum. 20,000 

Western Seamen’s Friend 

Society. 8,000 

Western Seamen’s Bethel_ 15,000 

The Old People’s Home. 50,000 


Total.$ 432,900 


'ine understanding was that in consideration of 
the aid thus bestowed they would co-operate with 
the Relief and Aid Society in the work of caring 


















relief and aid society 45 

i.or the city’s poor, and make no discrimination on 
accoui^^ nationality, or religious belief. 

This agreement thus to co-operate was formulated 
definite contract in perpetuity with regard tc 
itie following: 


HOSPITALS, ETC. 


NAMES. 


Alexian Brothers’ Hospital. 

Deaconess’ Hospital. 

Eye and Ear Infirmary. 

Hahnemann, or Scammon Hospital 

Mercy Hospital. 

St. Luke’s Hospital. 

St. Joseph’s Hospital. 

Women’s and Children’s Hospital.. 
Home for the Friendless. 


Total current 
expenses first 
few months 
after fire. 

Amounts for 

which it ob¬ 

tained beds. 

No. beds own¬ 

ed by C. R. & 
A. society. 

Persons cared 
for ’93,sent by 

C.R. & A.soc. 


$18,200 

18 

' 22 


25,000 

25 


$ 1,760 75 

20,000 

20 

.... 

1,326 00 

15,000 

15 

12 

15,742 34 

40,000 

40 

23 

2,373 99 

28,000 

28 - 

10 

2,306 80 

30,000 

30 

18 

542 85 

25,000 

25 

95 


30,400 


653 




S24.051 73 

$231,600 




The cases helped by these charities are registered 
at the central office of the Chicago Relief and Aid 
Society. 

Branch Offices—North, South and West Sides. 


Upon the union of the Chicago Relief and Aid 
Society with the Charity Organization Society in 
1887, the branch offices and wood yard of the C. O. 
S. were to be assumed by the former, together with 
its general work. 





























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RELIEF AND AID SOCIETY 


The C. R. & A. S. Wood Yards. 

North Side, Roberts and East Superior Streets, 
One Block South of Chicago Avenue Bridge. 

Telephone North 415. 

South Side, Armour Ave.* and 34th St. 

Object: “To furnish temporary employment in 
an emergency to able-bodied men as a labor test.” 

The method pursued is for the Society to pur¬ 
chase wood and kindling in large quantities and set 
able-bodied men, as above described, saw¬ 
ing and splitting it, and then delivering it at market 
prices to customers all over the city. Single men 
on the performance of a given stint receive tickets 
good for a meal or lodging at restaurants and lodg¬ 
ing houses in the city; married men receive an 
equivalent in cash. The number of men thus aided 
is given as follows: 



1891 

1894 

1896 

Men given work at wood yard. 

Tickets for meals and lodgings given for work. 

872 

4.831 

12,708 

6,327 

21,210 

$7,460 

152 

44,197 

Cash paid for work to men with families. 

Men furnished with other employment. 

Tickets for meals and lodgings to invalid men or 

$419 

1,142 

$1,562 

emergency cases frem Central ofi&ce. 

2,396 

1,608 

2,146 

Receipts from sale of wood. 

$11,742 

$19,856 

$15,884 

















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Receipts and Expend’s. 

1891 

1892 

1 1893 

1894 

1895 

1896 

Cash to approved appli’s. 

$10,701 

$16,026 

$18,602 

$43,326 

$26,158 

$23,199 

Mdse., clothing, etc. 

2,149 

3,008 

3,276 

10,086 

3,100 

2,541 

Fuel. 

302 

198 

357 

82 

238 

252 

Surgical appliances . 

31 

23 

67 

70 

39 

106 

Interments. 

740 

474 

560 

661 

685 

412 

Transportation R. R . 

454 

491 

527 

881 

1,100 

881 

Pay roll. 

6,513 

7,622 

9,226 

15,371 

9,963 

8,002 

Wood yards. 

11,486 

13,528 

17,041 

28,742 

28,141 

15,884 

Total. 

$34,593 

$45,401 

$55,248 

$104,178 

$75,434 

$55,029 

Families Aided. 







Aged, sick or infirm men.. 

1,115 

1,520 

1,470 

1,946 

1,310 

976 

Aged, sick or infirm wido’s 

2,430 

3,328 

3,469 

4,395 

4,251 

2,550 

Men, on acc’t of sickness. 

675 

962 

947 

2,960 

870 

670 

Able-bodied widows. 

970 

1,360 

1,426 

1,807 

1,785 

1,292 

Des’t’d women with fml’s. 

875 

1,195 

1,302 

1,371 

1,615 

1,024 

Aged, sick, single men_ 

380 

540 

516 

305 

453 

309 

Aged, sick, single women. 

765 

1,055 

1,158 

463 

678 

463 

Total. 

7,210 

9,960 

10,288 

13,247 

10,962 

7,286 

Adults, in families aided. 

3,'750 

5,990 

7,038 

,170 

8,723 

6,410 

Children, in faml’s aided. 

12,875 

17,265 

18,004 

595 

17,980 

13,398 

Total aided. 

15,625 

23,255’ 

25,042 

43,765 

26,703 

19,808 


Families aided (in 1896), once, 2,789; twice, 855; thrice, 447; four times 
220; five times, 52; six times or oftener, 46. Applications approved, 7,286; 
disapproved, 6,500; referred to county agent or other organizations, 4,500. 


The support is from donations and investments. It 
owns endowments;has no religious affiliations; makes 
no discrimination on account of race, creed or nation¬ 
ality; it employs no solicitors. The central office, the 
Relief Blk., 51-53 La Salle St., is its property. Here 
it has more than 100,000 records of applications. 
Henry W. King, Pres.; Wm. H. Hubbard, Sec.; 

Ernest A. Hamill, Treas. 


C. L. Allen, 
Z. R. Carter, 

G. W. Cass, 

J. S. Ford, 

S. E. Gross, 

H. W. King, 
E. A. Hamill, 
R. M. Wells, 
J. Rosenberg, 


board of directors. 


Wm. H. Hubbard, 
W. J. Chalmers, 
Dr. F. S. Johnson, 
Bryan Lathrop, 

E. H. Valentine, 
C. H. Mulliken, 
H. G. Selfridge, 
John McLaren, 

J. J. Glessner, 


Geo. D. Rumsey, 
A. A. Sprague, 
E. M. Teall, 

T. W. Harvey, 

J. M. Wanzer, 
M. Nelson, Jr. 
C. A. Paltzer, 
Joseph Leiter, 
Mayor, ex - officio . 


A. A. Sprague, Chairman Executive Cora., H. G. Selfridge, 
John McLaren, J. J. Glessner, R. M, Wells. 

C. G. Trusdell, General Supt. 



































CHILDREN’S HOME SOCIETY. 
National Headquarters. 

167 Dearborn St., Chicago, 
Room 712. 

Chartered in 1885 as 

The American Educational Aid Association. 

A national organization with twenty-three State 
auxiliaries as follows: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, 
Missouri, Indiana, Wisconsin, California, Ohio, 
Michigan, Colorado, South Dakota, North Dakota, 
Nebraska, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ken¬ 
tucky, New York, Oregon, Washington, Montana, 
Arkansas and Texas. 

Objects: ‘<To provide approved family homes for 
homeless and dependent children.” 

The Society has a general Superintendent, and 
each State has a State Superintendent and District 
Superintendents. 

A prominent feature of the work of this Society is 
the Local Advisory Boards. There are more than 
3,000 of these local boards already organized. These 
boards (i) report homeless children, (2) homes in 
which to place them, (3) supervise them in their 
homes, to guard against abuse and neglect, (4) 
receive money which is remitted to the Treasurer 
of the State organization. 

The Children’s Home Society in Illinois, placed in 
family homes, up to January ist, 1897, 2,585 children, 
replacing them when necessary. During 1896, 279 
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children’s home society. 


children were thus placed. The total number of 
children placed through the various state auxiliaries 
is 7,773- 

The Society has an organ of 44 pages in magazine 
form, The Children's Home Finder, the Illinois Super¬ 
intendent being editor. The monthly circulation 
now averages 18,000. There are temporary homes 
for the use of Illinois children; the Englewood In¬ 
fant Nursery, No. 6516 Perry Ave., Chicago, and Mt. 
Vernon Nursery, Mt, Vernon, Illinois. 

The receipts of the Illinois auxiliary from Jan. ist, 
1896, to Jan. ist, 1897 were: 

Cash on hand. $ 7.57 

Receipts, year ending January ist, 1897. .. 13,424 99 

Total cash on hand. 13,432.56 

Disbursements. 13,421.80 

Cash on hand. 10.76 


The receipts of all State auxiliaries during 
the last fiscal year, from Jurie ist. 


1895, to June ist, 1896 were.$92,689.92 

Disbursements. 90,072.57 

The whole number of children placed by 

all the auxiliaries was. i,599 

The average cost per child was. ^56.33 


John Woodbridge, President. 

A. O. Wright, Secretary. 

A. C. Cady, Financial Secretary. 

Geo. K. Hoover, State Superintendent. 
Mrs. M. V. B. VanArsdale, Assistant Supt. 
Jacob Hartman* Office Secretary. 












CHILDRENS’ AID SOCIETY. 

Office, Room 2, 15 Washington St. 

Chartered July 1890 . Amended in 1896 . 

Hospital and Home, No. 703 North Clark St. 
(Opposite Lincoln Park). 

Cushing Kindergarten, Corner Paulina and Cor¬ 
nelia Sts. 

Objects: “To improve the condition of poor and 
destitute children; to maintain a maternity hospital, 
and a training school for nurses and nursery maids.” 

It is working to help the children of Chicago 
and the State of Illinois, morally, intellectually and 
socially. 

1. It finds homes for homeless, dependent chil¬ 
dren, the children of misfortune—the victims of the 
desertion of one or both parents, those whose par¬ 
ents have become financially embarrassed so that 
they can no longer support their children, and those 
who are half-orphans or who have lost both parents 
—by placing them in family homes to be cared for 
and trained by loving hands, and adopted as the 
children and heirs of the adoptive parents. 

2. It takes the unmarried mother, the deserted 
wife, or the widow, who has a child,and finds house¬ 
work for her in private families, where she can earn 
the support of both, remaining herself a worthy 
member of society and training her little one to live 
an honorable life. It is a rule of the society never 
to separate a mother and her child unless it is abso¬ 
lutely necessary. 

3. It trains the children in the poor and needy 
districts by establishing kindergartens. 

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children’s aid society 


4. It organizes the boys and girls of ten to six¬ 
teen years into clubs, furnishing them the best of 
juvenile reading and the children’s magazines, and 
opening to them the world of parliamentary regu¬ 
lation, of military control, of quiet indoor games, 
or, through talks, of the many wonders all about 
them, teaches the members to be gentlemen and 
gentlewomen. 

5. It establishes creches to furnish at a nominal 
price care during the day for the little children of 
working mothers who would otherwise have to stay 
at home, go encumbered to their work, or leave their 
babies to be looked after at home by older children. 

6. It investigates all cases of need or neglect re¬ 
ported to it, and refers to the proper societies such 
cases as do not come within its sphere of work. 

The C. A. S. Hospital and Home, located at 
No. 703 North Clark Street, opened in September, 
1896, has broadened the scope of the Society’s work. 

The maternity department includes both maternity 
cases of dependent women and the care of little 
children, whose mothers have turned deserters. 

Another branch of work in this Home, is the 
training of nursery maids after the kindergarten 
method. This is a new movement in the city. The 
results thus far have been auspicious in this 
thoroughly equipped school. Supplementing this 
teaching is a regular course of lectures on the care 
of children. 

In a six months’ course, the maids will be taught 
the fundamental principles of physiology, hygiene, 
medicine, bathing of infants, sterilizing of milk, 
care of bottles, how to take temperatures and test 


childrens’ aid society. 


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the pulse; to give treatment in common illness, to 
dust the nursery so as not to get particles in the air, 
to make beds and to care properly for the clothing 
of infants, and generally fitted for this special 
work. The maid goes from the Home with a certifi¬ 
cate signed by physicians in charge of the school. 

Board and laundry work are provided for these 
maids while under training, with no pay to the man¬ 
agement, except service while learning. 

This is a small beginning of an undertaking which 
promises great and far-reaching results, not only in 
the development and betterment of the girls them¬ 
selves, but in relief to mothers in well-to-do homes, 
who suffer from the incompetence and ignorance of 
this class of help. 

Temporary shelter is given to children while wait¬ 
ing to be transferred to permanent homes. 

An Auxiliary Board of Women has been organized, 
which will have charge of the hospital and training 
school, with the following officers: 

President, Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson. 

Secretary, Mrs. George Plummer. 

Treasurer, Mrs. William McKinley. 

With twenty-five active members and twenty five 
honorary members. 

Work of Placing-Out Department of Children’s 
Aid Societ}^ from April, 1894, to February ist, 1897: 


Orphan children placed in family homes. 184 

<< << replaced in family homes.... 33 

placed in institutions. n 

<< << cared for by boarding out.... 14 

<< returned to friends. 33 

Total of orphan children cared for. 275 








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childrens’ aid society. 


Half-Orphan children placed with their 

mothers...130 

Mothers (with their children) placed in fam¬ 
ilies.130 

Total of mothers and children placed together 260 

Total of all placed in homes. 525 

Of the orphan children placed in families, 
there were: Placed on farms (boys, 55, 

girls, 38). 93 

Placed in families of professional men. 15 

‘‘ “ merchants,mechanics,etc 90 

‘‘ “ “ widows and retired men. 19 

Number of children who have died. 49 

Financial report from April 19th, 1894, to Dec. 
31st, 1896: 

Balance on hand April 19th, 1894. $ 655.75 

Receipts to Dec. 31st, 1896. 19,677.63 

Total. $20,333.38 

Bills paid as per vouchers. 20,128.51 

Leaving a cash balance Jan. ist, 1897... $204.87 

Donations' (other than cash) made to the Hospital 
and Home since August, 1896, amount to over $1,200. 

This tabulated statement of mothers and children 
does not include cases sent to the hospitals for treat¬ 
ment, nor the relief given in clothing and food to 
families where there are from one to five children, 
nor numerous cases referred to other societies and 
institutions, involving both mother and child, with 
transportation of mothers and children to friends in 
other states. 














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childrens’ aid society. 


OFFICERS. 

Hon. H. B. Hurd, President. 

Wm. Deering, Vice-President. 

Hon. T. C. McMillan, Vice-President. 

John W. Tindall, Vice-President. 

Mrs. Glen Wood, Secretary. 

Geo. S. Lord, Treasurer, 72 Wabash ave. 
illustrative cases. 

The first lady who took an interest in our young 
girl mothers was Mrs. McEvoy, who in 1891 called 
at our office for a child. Her first charge was a 
young woman with a baby girl two weeks old. She 
lived with her until the year of the World’s Fair, 
when she married a musician on the North Side. 
She is happy in her new home and has a kind hus¬ 
band. This is given as a simple instance of the good 
results of Mrs. McEvoy’s interest in these unfortu¬ 
nate women, five of whom she has taken to her home 
and heart, reclaiming them, with a single exception, 
to worthy and useful lives. 

Childrens' Aid Society: 

Dear Friends:— We enclose you card with ques¬ 
tions answered in reference to Nancy. We have in¬ 
tended to legally adopt her, but have not done so 
as yet. 

It will be a year next month since we took a boy 
of two years from a home at St. Joseph, Mich. In 
this way we are trying to do as much good as we 
can. 

Our house is now facetiously called by neighbors 
“Foundlings’ Home.” and we anticipate giving them 
more reason to so call it, for we look forward to tak¬ 
ing one or more other little ones. Margaret is cer¬ 
tainly one among a thousand. We have never had 
the least trouble with her. It seems wonderful that 
one so young should always manifest such a desire to 
please and such a high appreciation of everthing 
done for her. Sincerely yours, C. F. B. 



childrens’ aid society. 


57 


Dear Friends: —The child has grown to be a 
clever, loving and manly little fellow—indeed, the 
house would be a lonesome place without him. I 
am heartily glad to see the energy displayed in this 
great and good cause by your society, and believe 
that He who loved the little children will remember 
you when He gathers His gems for His kingdom and 
will give you credit for rescuing some of the brightest 
in His crown from the temptations that assail the 
children of our large cities. 

Yours faithfully, I. & D. S. 

Dear Friend: —We send you little Willie’s picture. 
You can see by that what a sweet boy he is. We 
could not part with him. I never think anything but 
that he is my own boy. 

With best respects to you, Mrs. J. B. 

My Dear Mrs. Wood: —We are very much pleased 
with Gertie, as she has grown to be a nice girl and 
so good to her sister. She is very loving and likes 
to help me. She will pick up the dishes herself and 
then wipe them all for me. We both love her. 

And our baby is a darling. She is now two years 
old and walks all about and talks and is such a sweet 
little thing. She has red hair and it curls all over 
her head. Her eyes are blue, and we think she is 
very pretty. , She has some temper and she shows it 
a good deal. She is a smart little thing and so af¬ 
fectionate. She says many times a day, “1 love you. 
Mamma,” and Gertie stops in her play and says, ‘T 
love you. Mamma,” and wants to kiss me. 

We both love them both very much and nothing 
but death would now separate us from our children. 

Mrs. P. J. B. 


CITIZENS’ LEAGUE OF CHICAGO FOR 
THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SALE OF 
LIQUOR TO MINORS. 

Office, 113 Adams St., Room '45. 


Object: "To secure, by all proper means, the 

enforcement of all laws and ordinances for the pre¬ 
vention of the sale of liquors to minors and drunk¬ 
ards, and also the enforcement of all laws and 
ordinances to prevent minors from playing at games 
of chance or other games in saloons in the city of 
Chicago." 

THE i 6 tH annual REPORT FOR 1893 SHOWS: 


No. of Saloon K’p’s Prosecuted 701 

Number of Charges. 1103 

Selling to Minors. 516 

Keeping Disorderly Houses.., 39 

Selling to Drunkards. .. 548 

Amount of Fines and Costs 

Imposed.$10,753 

Held to Criminal Court. 106 

Precedendos issued in Criminal 
Court. 65 


Appealed to Quasi Criminal 


Court. 101 

Continued during year . i49 

Continued until January, 1894.. 21 

Number Fined by Justice. 404 

No. Fined in Criminal Court.. 55 

No.of Witnesses Subpoenaed.. 2099 

Bonds Forfeited . 14 


Nolle Prosequied and Dismissed 179 


Summary of work done since organization (1878) 
to 1899. 



1878 

1879 

1892 

1893 

Total 

No. of Charges against Saloon Keepers... 

241 

166 

1592 

1103 

18442 

Held to the Grand Jury. 

81 

90 

158 

108 

1884 

Fined by Justices. 

88 

85 

581 

434 

10546 


Receipts for 1893, ^6,420.04; disbursements, 

$6,117.52. The Society employs a general agent and 
two assistants. The agents are vested with police 
powers, but are not on the department’s pay roll, 
nor does the Society receive benefits of fines, these 
going to the school fund. Its support is entirely from 
voluntary donations. 

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citizens’ league 


59 


The Society states that it is unable with its pres¬ 
ent force to cover the entire city properly. This 
would requiie one man to every police station, or 
twelve additional agents, an increased expense of 
^10,000 a year. This would secure the effectual 
enforcement of the law against the sale of liquors 
to minors and drunkards. 

AN ILLUSTRATIVE CASE. 

"Mrs. Mary A., residing at-, mother of four 

children, aged i6, 13, ii and 8, came to the office 
of the ‘Citizens’ League,’ and gave the history of 
the misery and ruin surrounding their home, caused 
by the sale of intoxicating liquors to her husband 
and her children. This case was investigated by the 
League’s agents, and was found to be pitiful indeed. 
The husband was a habitual drunkard, spending all 
his money for intoxicating liquor, until the once 
happy home became one of misery and want. 

"He would compel his children to go to the 
different saloons and buy intoxicating liquors for him 
when he was not in a condition to go himself. And 
upon refusal of the children to obey his commands, 
they were severely punished by him. The father 
was arrested, tried, and was sent to the Bridewell, 
and four saloon keepers were fined for selling liquor 
to the children, each $25.00 and cost, and one was 
held in addition to the Criminal Court in bonds of 
$200.00. ” 

I. P. Rumsey, President. 

James W. Janney, First Vice-President. 

A. L. Coe, Treasurer. 

H. J. Hayward, General Agent. 



LIST OF FREE DISPENSARIES. 

Alexian Brothers’ Hospital, 539 N. Market Street. 
Chicago Polyclinic, 174 E. Chicago Ave. 

German Hospital and Dispensary, 754 Larrabee Street. 
Open from 10 a. m. to 12 m. 

North Star Dispensary, 192 Superior Street. 

Bennett Free Dispensary, Ada and Fulton Streets. 
Central Free Dispensary, Harrison and Wood Streets. 
Open from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. 

Homeopathic Hospital Free Dispensary, Wood and York 
Streets. 

Women and Children’s Hospital Dispensary, Adams 
and Paulina Streets. 

111 . Char. Eye and Ear Dispensary, 121 S. Peoria Street. 
Open from 2 to 3 p. m. 

Kirkland Free Dispensary, 111 S. Halsted Street. 
Lincoln Street Dispensary, 333 S. Lincoln Street. Open 
from 2 to 4 p. m. 

W. C. T. U. Free Dispensary, S 70 W. Madison Street. 
AVest Side Free Dispensary, Harrison and Honore Sts. 
Open from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. 

Chicago Public Dispensary, 819 AY. Harrison Street. 
Armour Alission Dispensary, 33 rd Street and Armour 
Ave. Open from 9 to 11 a. m. 

Michael Reese Hospital Dispensary, Groveland Ave. 
and 29 th Street. Open from 9 a. m. to 12 m. 

Charity Hospital Free Dispensary, 2407 Dearborn Street. 
Open from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m.^ 

South Side Free Dispensary, 2435 Dearborn Street. Open 
from 1 to 3 p. m. 

St. Luke Free Dispensary, 1434 Indiana Ave. Open 
from 1 to 2:30 p. m. 

Hahnemann Hospital Dispensary, 2813 Groveland Ave. 
The AVillie Hipp Free Dispensarj’^ for poor children, 4453 
State, cor. 55 th Street. Open from 3 to 4 p. m. 

Columbia Char. Dispensary and Hospital, 3823 LaSalle. 
AVoman’s Hospital Dispensary,Rhodes Ave. and 32 nd St. 
Physio-Medical College Dispensary, 519 Milwaukee Ave. 

Provident Hospital (Armour) Dispensary, 29 th and Dear¬ 
born Streets. 


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FRIENDLY AID SOCIETY. 


3961 Drexel Boulevard. 

Object: “The object of this society shall be char¬ 
itable work, such work to be decided upon by the 
vote of the majority of the members present. It 
shall be non-sectarian and consist of members who 
shall contribute annually to its funds.” 

There are at present no members,all living in the 
neighborhood. The work undertaken last winter 
was to contribute $609.12 towards the building fund 
of the Destitute Crippled Children’s Home, and 
later the opening and maintenance of an emergency 
sewing room at 197 Oakwood Boulevard. 

The receipts were, from membership fees $139; 
from bazar $656.95; from donations $326.38; from 
minstrels $591.25. Total, $1,713.58. Disbursements 
to Crippled Children’s Home $609.12,for emergency 
rooms and incidentals $397.90. Balance in hand, 
$706.65. 

No solicitors or other salaried agents are em¬ 
ployed. The nature of the work undertaken is de¬ 
termined by the membership as the various causes 
present themselves. 

Mrs. Telford Burnham, President. 

Mrs. Jonas Hutchinson, First Vice-President. 

Mrs. a. G. Cone, Second Vice-President. 

Mrs. L. D. Condee, Treasurer. 

Mrs. John D. Bangs, Secretary. 

Mrs. John Morse, Assistant Secretary 

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HOME FOR SELF-SUPPORTING WOMEN. 


275 Indiana Street. 

Provident Laundry. 

Employment Bureau. 

Object: “To establish and render self-supporting 
a lodging and boarding house where working women 
and girls with small means can find a comfortable 
and respectable home at a moderate price.” 

The Home was organized in 1887. During 1894 
there were 250 girls admitted, and almost as many 
turned away for want of accommodations. It admits 
women engaged in all kinds of work and has no re¬ 
ligious tests, affiliating with no religious bodies. A 
small price, $2.50 a week, is charged for board and 
lodging. The Home is self-supporting. The build¬ 
ing is owned; there are no endowments. Receipts 
from board and lodging, 1893-94, $8,097. Total, 
^iOj 377 - Disbursements, $9,429.35. 

Mrs. John Key, President. 

Mrs. McMurray, First Vice-President. 

Mrs. C. H. Hamill, Second Vice-President. 

Mrs. John Hannah, Third Vice-President. 

Mrs. Robert Hunt, Treasurer. 

Mrs. Wallace Kirk, Corresponding Secretary. 

Mrs. Rugby, Matron. 


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HOME FOR SELF-SUPPORTING WOMEN 


Provident Laundry. 

275 Indiana St. Established in 1889. 

Object: “To provide a channel of work for 

able-bodied women out of employment and desirous 
to become self-supporting; to maintain a training 
school where superior work is taught, and an Em¬ 
ployment Bureau where permanent situations are 
secured for those desiring them.” 

The Laundry is conducted in the rear of the Home, 
overtaxing its accommodations. An average of 25 
women find employment daily. The weekly receipts 
average $2^0. A large number of these women, 
the committee’s report says, become proficient 
enough to take permanent positions in families. 

An Employment Bureau is connected with the 
laundry, giving to needy women sent by various 
charitable organizations employment, mostly in pri¬ 
vate families. This averages from 60 to 80 days’ work 
a month. During 1893-4 ^he receipts were $12,- 
817.14; ^9,073.54 were paid in wages; running ex¬ 
penses $1,786.67; balance of profit, $2,000, which 
was given to the Home to cancel its indebtedness. 

Mrs. J. B. Lyon, President. 

Mrs. R. R. Campbell, Treasurer. 

Mrs. M. McCarthy, Superintendent. 

Miss J. L. King, Corresponding Secretary. 


SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS OP CHICAGO. 

Location, Date of Establishment, Name of Head-Workers, 
Number of Residents. 


Objects: “The object for which they are formed 
is to provide a center for a higher civic and social 
life, to initiate and maintain educational and philan¬ 
thropic enterprises and to investigate and improve 
conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago.” 

They are home centers located in the more densely 
populated and neglected neighborhoods, and “consist 
primarily of a group of people who choose to make 
their home where they seem o be most needed.” 
There have grown up around these home centers a 
number of activities and interests in the way of social 
clubs and friendly groups for purposes of kindergar¬ 
ten and manual training, reading rooms, and acade¬ 
mic, art and musical culture, together with charitable 
enterprises such as friendly visiting, chreches, diet- 
kitchens, lodging houses, etc. The three last named 
are in operation at the Hull House: 

Day Nursery and Kindergarten, 335 S. Halsted 
Street. 

Woman’s Model Lodging House, 247 W. Polk 
Street. 

Diet-Kitchen and Coffee House, 240 W. Polk 
Street. 

The Diet-Kitchen in connection with the Coffee 
House prepares, in a scientific manner, foods and 
broths for invalids, and supplies them at a nominal 
charge or cost price to any one presenting a certifi¬ 
cate from a district nurse or a physician. Foods are 
also sold by the quart or pound to families for home 
consumption. Coffee, soups and stews are delivered 
daily at noon to neighboring factories. 

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SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS OF CHICAGO. 

Location, Date, Head-Workers, Residents. 

Hull House. 

335 South Halsted Street. 
i88g. Miss Jane Addams. 22. 
Northwestern University. 

252 West Chicago Avenue. 

1891. Mrs. M. E. Sly. 8. 

Clybourn Avenue Settlement. 

279 Clybourn Avenue. 

1892. Rev. N. B. W. Gallwey. 15. 
Maxwell Street Settlement. 

185 West Thirteenth Street. 

1893. J. J. Abt. 3. 

University of Chicago. 

4638 Ashland Avenue. 

1894. Miss Mary E. McDowell. 10. 
Epworth House. 

49 Pearce Street. 

1894. Rev. G. W. Gray. 12. 

Chicago Commons. 

140 N. Union St. (S.W. of Milwaukee Ave.) 

1894. Graham Taylor. 24. 

Medical Missionary College. 

744 Forty Seventh Street.* 

1895. Dr. j. H. Kellogg, M. D. 

Helen Heath Settlement. 

869 Thirty-Third Court. 

1895. Alma Graves, M. D. 8. 

Elm Street Settlement. 

80 Elm Street. 

1895. Miss Ellen Snyder. 3. 

Kirkland Settlement. 

334 Indiana Street. 

1896. Cornelia Kirkland. 5. 
Nighborhood House. 

1550 Sixty-Ninth Street. 

1896. Mrs. H. M. Vandervart. 2. 

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ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE 
AND MANUAL TRAINING FOR BOYS. 

Glenwood, III. Secretary’s Office, Rooms 27-8, 
113 Adams St., Cor. Clark. 

Objects: “To provide a home and proper train¬ 
ing for destitute and wayward boys who may be 
committed to its charge.” 

The school was opened first at Norwood Park, 
June 30, 1887, and removed to its present site at 
Glenwood, June 12, 1890. It was regularly incor¬ 


porated under the State Industrial School law, Feb. 
14, 1887. 

Its seventh annual report shows as follows: 
Number of boys registered since organization 

of Home..1,302 

Number of boys placed out since organization 

of Home.1,067 

Number of boys in the Home May ist, 1893.. 203 

Number of boys received in the Home during 

the year. . .. 248 

Number of boys returned during the year, pre¬ 
viously placed in private homes. 16 

Number of boys placed in homes or restored 

to friends during the year. 232 


Number of boys cared for during the year.. .. 467 

Number of boys in the Home May ist, 1894.. 235 

Number of boys in Kindergarten 16, in 
Primary 43,in ist grade 21,in 2nd 65,in 3rd 
112, in 4th 85, in 5th 76, in 6th 36, in 7th 13. 

Total in school for the year 
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68 SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND MANUAL TRAINING 

From May ist, 1893, to May ist, 1894, 223 boys 
left the school, 160 going back to their friends, and 
63 being indentured into country homes; 16 were 
readmitted. Of the 235 in the school. May ist, 
1894, 5 were in 4 years, 9 three years, 22 two years, 
56 one year, 143 less than one year. The ages of 
the boys were: 48 from 6 to 10; loi from 10 to 12; 
62 from 12 to 14; 24 from 14 to 16. No death oc¬ 
curred; 18 nationalities were represented. The boys 
are taught various trades and agriculture, raising 
farm products to a value of ^4,555.86. 

The treasurer’s report is as follows: 

Cash on hand at last Annual Meeting....^22,353.15 


For the Building Fund. 5,500.00 

From Friday Club Endowment Fund.... 7,000.00 

From General Donations. 7,005.19 

From Boarders. 4,422.92 

From Cook County. 12,000.00 


Miscellaneous receipts, ^2,362 Total. ^60,643 


Expendit’r’s (Building fund), $27,574; Total, 51,838 

Edward B. Butler, President. 

Frederick T. Haskell, Treasurer, 720 Rookery. 

O. L. Dudley, Sec. and Gen’l M’gr, 113 Adams St. 

Mrs. Ursula L. Harrison, Superintendent. 

Milton George, G. E. Adams, Andrew Crawford, 
A. N. Waterman, Frank Follansbee, 

HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL. 

Cor. 28th and Cottage Grove Ave. 

This is the oldest Homeopathic Hospital in Chi¬ 
cago. It owns its building and some endowments; 
has no religious affiliations; admits both free and pay 
patients, but has furnished no report. 









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ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR 
GIRLS. 

South Evanston. Office, Room 413, 70 State St. 

Object: “The care and training of dependent 

girls.” 

Number in Home October i, 1894 ..146 

Received into Home during the year.125 


Total cared for.271 

Children committed.258 

Boarders.13 

Total. 271 


Children committed (by Cook County, 179; by 
9 other counties, 26); boarders 13; charity 6; total, 
271. 

The ages of the children were: 49 above 12, 23 
between lo and 12, 40 under 10, 7 under 5, and one 
was 3)4 years old. 

The Committee on Home and Indenture report: 



1891 

1892 

1893 

1894 

Applications. 


276 

118 

250 

Placed in homes. 

39 

83 

52 

54 

Returned to friends. 


23 

15 

35 

Returned to school. 


10 

5 

12 

Discharged. 

1 


11 

35 


Sewing Room and Laundry.—Work done last year 
consisted of the making and repairing of bed, table 
and other household linen, and the wearing apparel 
of over 100 girls, and the laundrying of 80,000 
pieces. 

Report of the Secretary from October 14, 1891, 
to October ii, 1894: 


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INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 


RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. 


Cook County. 

Outside counties. 

Associate members. 

1891 

1892 

$ 14 , 339.67 

3.177-43 

30 00 

1893 

$ 11 , 333-19 

1 , 819.25 

13.00 

75.00 

i68.5o 

1894 

$ 10 , 999.92 

1 , 891.00 

Corporate members. 



Board Money. 

. 4^5 

760.27 

1 , 024.42 

60.76 

47-53 


Donations. 

Record and Appeal . 

. 1.255 

352.33 

92.00 

29.05 

1 , 567.20 

Sundries. 




Dues. 

Baker estate.. 
Hodge estate. 


3 00 


2.00 

666.67 

474-50 


Total. $ 14,925 $ 19 , 342.08 $ 15 , 025.49 $ 14 , 458.12 

There are no religious affiliations and no endow¬ 
ments. No solicitors are employed. The buildings, 
valued at $50,000, are owned, besides 40 acres of 
land at Park Ridge, valued at $40,000. 

The directory took active steps to secure the es¬ 
tablishment of a State Reform School for Girls. 


Mrs. M. R. M. Wallace, President, 3817 Mich¬ 
igan Ave. 

Mrs. J. S. .Conger, Vice-President, 426 Jackson 
Boulevard. 

Mrs. M. I. Sandes, Room 413, 70 State St. 

Mrs. C. C. Hughes, Corresponding Secretary, 
Room 35, 185 Dearborn St. 

Miss Clara Hunt, Treasurer, 2241 Calumet Ave. 


executive committee and board of trustees. 
Mrs. M. R. M. Wallace, Chairman. 


Mrs. J. S. Conger, Miss Clara Hunt, 

Mrs. M. C. Van Benschoten, Mrs. M. I. Sandes, 
Mrs. D. W. Richardson. 






























THE ILLINOIS HUMANE SOCIETY. 

560 Wabash Avenue. (Telephone “Harrison” 384.) 

Chartered by the Legislature as the Illinois Society 
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, March 25th, 
1869. Prevention of cruelty to children was joined 
to its work and its name changed to The Illinois 
Humane Society, July 5th, 1877. 

Its objects are to secure the enactment and enforce¬ 
ment of laws for the prevention of cruelty to Animals 
and Children, to induce effective action toward the 
same throughout this State, and by a system of 
humane education to promote a humane public sen¬ 
timent. 

The spirit and office of the organization is to ed¬ 
ucate rather than to punish. 

The Society is supported chiefly by voluntary con¬ 
tributions; but the Legislature of 1885 authorized 
the payment of all fines paid in money, imposed 
through its agency, into its treasury. 

The Society is called on continually for a multi¬ 
tude of services outside its legitimate sphere, and 
is active in giving aid, either material or advisory. 


SUMMARY. 

1887j 1888 1889 

1890 

1891 

1892 

1893 

1894 

1895 

' 

1896 

Tolsl 

Complaints investigated 
Children rescued. 

2898 1625; 

163 

2331 

28723141 

3251 

3195 

4358'4704 

3000 ; 

1120 1152 1238 1254 

1015 

1302 

1122 

375 

497 

582 

9657 

Ceildren placed in chari¬ 












table institutions. 

291 

420 

502 

619 

508 

431 

413 

346 

350 

69 

3949 

Horses rescued by repri¬ 












mand of drivers. 

980 

1 260 

317 

782 

858 

804 

835 

680 

858 

744 

7118 

Horses laid up from work 

130' 

C8 

75 

141 

149 

379 

256 

273 

405 

257 

2134 

Animals removed by am¬ 

1 

1 










bulance . 

111 

93 

112 

77 

133 

180 

209 

154 

133 

126 

1401 

Disabled animals shot... 

316 

157 

133 

194 

213 

275 

254 

319 

281 

201 

2347 

Persons prosecuted for 












cruelty to animals. 

66 

78 

51 

67 

95 

147 

117 

58 

166 

104 

944 

Persons prosecuted for 












cruelty to children.... 

40 

17 

22 

33 

35 

54 

34 

41 

22 

58 

355 


jReceipts (1896), Expenditures, $7,757.53, 



























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THE ILLINOIS HUMANE SOCIETY 


The Society has erected forty-three Street Foun¬ 
tains throughout the city for the supply of drinking 
water to persons and animals. 

Complaints when received are promptly examined, 
whether forwarded anonymously or not; but it is re¬ 
quested for obvious reasons that the names of the 
complainants should be signed to them. The name 
of the sender is never divulged if requested to be 
kept secret. 

The Society owns its building,at 560 Wabash Ave. 

Contributions may be sent to the President or 
Treasurer or to any member of the Board of Directors. 

ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. 

Two women, Mamie- and Lillie-, were 

arrested for cruelty to a dog. The facts appeared 
that these women had decoyed the dog into their 
house, swathed its tail in cotton cloth, saturated 
the whole body with kerosene oil, taken it to the 
street and then set fire to it. The dog was so fatally 
injured that it had to be killed. Parties fined, each, 
$100 and costs. 

G. W. -, an old offender, was arrested 

for working mules unfit for work upon the drainage 
canal and fined $200 and costs by Justice Everett 
on August i6th, 1894. 

A boy, about 20 years old, was found mutilating 
dogs by cutting off their ears, apparently as an ex¬ 
periment in vivisection. He was fined $10 and costs. 

Ten dollars and costs was the fine imposed on 
each of three men for working horses in the brick 
yards with sore shoulders. 

W. A.- and Edwin E. 


were prosecuted and 







THE ILLINOIS HUMANE SOCIETY 


8l 


sentenced to fifteen years each for criminal assault 
upon their fourteen year old daughters. We placed 
the girls in an Institution, where they will receive 
proper training and care. 

Complaint was made of the abuse of a girl, five 
years old, by her father and step-mother, by shutting 
her up in a closet in the basement of their house, 
and otherwise abusing her. The man, being willing(or 
so claiming) to do the best for the welfare of the 
child, was sent by us to the Chicago Industrial 
School to make arrangements for the child’s admis¬ 
sion. Two days afterward, the father desired to 
place the girl with a private family, to which we 
consented. When we sought afterward to examine 
the conditions existing, we learned that the father 
had taken the girl away to Michigan. We then swore 
out warrants for the man, his wife and mother-in- 
law for cruelty to the child, and all three were held 
to the Criminal Court in ^800 bonds each, and the 
child was returned to the School. The father then 
asked that the child be placed in custody of this 
Society; consenting to her adoption by an uncle in 
Milwaukee, to whom she was committed—upon 
which and the conveyance of the father’s interest 
in a small property left by the child’s mother at the 
time of her death, we deemed it best to nol. pros, 
the case, and the Judge so ordered. 


John G. Shortall, President. 

George Schneider, Treasurer. 

Belden F. Culver, Secretary. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

JohnG. Shortall, Ferd. W. Peck, 

John C. Dore, Henry N. Hart, 

’‘'David Swing, Thomas E. Hill, 

Wm. Penn Nixon, John T. Dale, 

George Schneider. 


^Deceased. 


ILLINOIS TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES. 

304 Honore St. 

Objects: “ To train nurses and to furnish them to 
the sick and wounded.” 

The school was organized in 1880. Its 15th an¬ 
nual report shows the total number graduated since 
its organization as being 409. A superintendent with 
three assistants, a night superintendent and 148 pu¬ 
pils were in attendance at the time of last report. 
During 1895-96, 46 were graduated after a two years’ 
course, receiving diplomas. 

The Bureau of Registration contains 113 names of 
graduates who are sent out to do private nursing; the 
calls for such nurses were 674 during last year. 
The fee is $5 for registering. 

The school supplies the nurses for the Cook 
County and Presbyterian Hospitals, and received last 
year from the former $ 21 , 200 , and from the latter 
^10,890.07; other receipts were, from annual member¬ 
ship dues, ^600; interest, 1^3,673; total receipts, 
$58,998.91. Expenditures: For hospital expenses, 
$10,963; for household expenses, $19,163, etc.; 
balance on hand, Oct. i, ’96, $7,094.69. No solicitors 
nre employed. The house is owned. 

Mrs. J. M. Walker, President. 

Mrs. W. Penn Nixon, Corresponding Secretary. 

Mrs. Orson Smith, Treasurer. 

Isabel McIsaac, Superintendent. 


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ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION. 

265 Honore Street. Incorporated 1894. 

Objects: “To assist well disposed ex-convicts, 

by providing them work temporarily, and aiding 
them in finding permanent employment.” 

No home is furnished the men, but a shop in 
which the trade of broom-making is carried on, 
which is always open to give temporary employ¬ 
ment, and pays such wages as will enable a man to 
maintain himself in an honest course of life. Here 
the superintendent, who has devoted himself to the 
welfare of the class for whom the Association was 
formed, for the past seven years, can always be 
found, and gives a hearty greeting to every one 
truly desirous of reforming, seeking permanent em¬ 
ployment for them as soon as they have demon¬ 
strated their sincerity, and giving them kind counsel 
and words of cheer. No alms, but a friend and 
work are furnished. 

Originally in 1885, this work was founded by 
some of the present Directors, with others not now 
identified with it, with the late Michael Dunn, an 
ex-convict, as Superintendent. A temporary Home 
was given the men for several years, but that fea¬ 
ture of the work has been given up after a thorough 
trial, the present system being deemed the wiser 
one. 

ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. 

M. B. T-applied for assistance after discharge 

from a five years’ sentence to the penitentiary; he 
confessed to never having done an honest day’s work 
83 


84 


ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION 


in his life, having been educated in criminal ways 
from infancy, but said he wished to abandon such 
a life and lead an honest one in future. It was a 
very discouraging case at first, as he seemed inca¬ 
pable of learning any mechanical pursuit; after a 
short time, however, outside work was secured for 
him at which he succeeded well, and he soon gained 
the confidence and esteem of his employers,who pro¬ 
moted him from time to time until he now occupies 
a responsible position in the business. He married 
well soon after getting established in his work, has 
united with the church, and is now an exemplary 
father and citizen, 

K. R-was known as "a repeater,” having 

served four sentences in penitentiaries, and was con¬ 
sidered an incorrigible criminal. Soon after his 
fourth discharge he applied to the Association for 
work and was taken in hand; it seemed almost a 
hopeless task for a time, but kindness won him and 
for years he has lived an honest and industrious 
life, providing for his family and educating his chil¬ 
dren, as well as often ‘‘giving a lift to men who are 
trying to square it.” 

W. S. PoTwiN, President. 

George F. Fiske, Secretary. 

B. M. Butler, Treasurer. 

Rev. a. C. Dodds, Superintendent. 


DIRECTORS. 


B. M. Butler, 
Geo. F. Fiske, 
W. S. POTWIN, 


A. M. Day, 

Rev. a. K. Parker, D. D. 
Jos. Schneider, 


C. W. Story. 


FREE KINDERGARTEN ASSOCIATION. 

Armour Mission, 33RD St. and Armour Ave. 

Organized 1881. 

Objects: “To thoroughly prepare young women^ 
free of tuition, to become competent kindergartners; 
to establish free kindergartens in the most neglected 
parts of the city.” 

There are each year about eighty students in the 
normal class, who give their services in the free 
kindergartens in the morning as a necessary part of 
their training, and attend classes in the afternoon. 
There are under the supervision of the Association 
twenty-one free kindergartens averaging in attend¬ 
ance from seventy to eighty children each. These 
kindergartens are located in all parts of the city (See 
pages 88 and 89) and reach the children of the most 
destitute classes. As the work is organized, a little 
money accomplishes much. For instance, ^600.00 
will pay the salary of the principal of one of these 
kindergartens for one year, train four or five young 
women, and begin the education of seventy-five 
children. 

To put it in another way, $4,500.00 will train 
eighty or more young women, and make the exist¬ 
ence of twenty free kindergartens possible by sup¬ 
plying assistant teachers. Donors are asked to send 
their gifts to the Treasurer, Chicago, Ill., Kinder¬ 
garten Association,Armour Ave. and 33rd St., with¬ 
out waiting for a personal appeal and thus save the 
expense of solicitors. 

Mr. H. N. Higin^otham, President. 

Mrs. L. B. Stephens, Vice-President. 

Mr. Richard Nash, Recording Secretary. 

Mr. W. E. Kelley, Treasurer. 

85 


FROEBEL ASSOCIATION. 


4815 Kenwood Ave. 

Objects: “To spread the knowledge of Froebel’s 

idea, and to press its claims upon our school au¬ 
thorities and upon our state legislature, in the con¬ 
viction that three most important habit-making years 
could be added to the school life of every child.” 

All but two of its Kindergartens have now been 
assumed by the Public Schools. The aim of the asso¬ 
ciation has to this extent been realized, the Kinder¬ 
garten being in its conception the foundation of our 
educational system and not a “charity.” The receipts 
during 1893 were $4,180.03; disbursements the same. 
There are no solicitors employed; no endowments or 
religious affiliations; no property is owned. 

Mrs. E. W. Blatchford, President. 

Mrs. T. W. Harvey, ist Vice-President. 

Mrs. Wirt Dexter, 2d Vice-President. 

Mrs. Wm. R. Page, Treasurer, 4747 Kimbark 
Avenue. 

Mrs. J. C. Sterling, Secretary. 

Mrs. Alice H. Putnam, Principal of Training 
Class. 


CHICAGO KINDERGARTEN COLLEGE. 

lo Van Buren St. 

“It was organized to meet the demand for more 
thoroughly trained Kindergartners and Normal Train¬ 
ing Teachers. Special emphasis is placed upon the 
careful study of the ‘Mutter und Rose Lieder, ’ the 
foundation of the Kindergarten system.” 

The College is an educational institution conducted 
on business principles, without endowments, and 
supported by the tuition charged, as announced in 
its prospectus. 

At the same time it does a large amount of Phi¬ 
lanthropic work each year in aiding students, in sup¬ 
porting free Mothers’ classes, in training nurses and 
in maintaining free kindergartens. 

The work of the College is subdivided as follows: 

Teachers’ Department Idterary Department 

Mothers’ Publishing “ 

Nurses’ Philanthropic “ 

The Mothers’ Department includes a three years’ 
course of work and study, so arranged as to include 
each year some part of the Kindergarten system 
which will aid mothers in the understanding of their 
children, and give them a command of such kinder¬ 
garten materials as can best be used in the home. 
These successive courses will occupy but one morn¬ 
ing of each week for 20 weeks of the school year. 

Free classes are also established for the training 
of mothers who have children in the free Kinder¬ 
gartens, which are under the supervision of the Col¬ 
lege. These classes are conducted by specialists in 
medicine, domestic economy and hygiene. 

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88 


CHICAGO KINDERGARTEN COLLEGE 


The Nurses’ Department trains “mothers’ assist¬ 
ants,” and was organized at the urgent request of 
mothers who felt the need of trained assistants in 
their homes. 

The Literary Department includes lectures and 
studies, followed each year by a Literary School. The 
proceeds of this department, over and above the nec¬ 
essary expenditures, are given to the Philanthropic 
Department, which has been organized for the pur¬ 
pose of giving to all friends of the Kindergarten an 
opportunity to aid in its charitable work, especially 
in the establishing and maintaining of Kindergartens 
in the poorest districts of the city. 

The free Kindergartens under the College are sup¬ 
ported by individuals, churches, mothers’ associa¬ 
tions, etc., the average cost being from $500 to 
^600. 

Elizabeth Harrison, Principal. 

Mrs J. N. Crouse, Director. 

Private Kindergartens. 

Eleanor Reid—2541 Calumet Ave. 

Halsted Street—784 S. Halsted St. 

Railroad Chapel—3825 Dearborn St. 

Armour—^33rd and Dearborn Sts. 

Bethesda—406 S. Clark St. 

Marie Chapel—Wentworth Ave. & Bushnell St. 

Tabernacle—Morgan and Indiana Sts. 

Drummond Kindergarten—Cor. Clybourn PI. and 
Gerard St. 

Plymouth—3027 Butler St. 

German—Locke and Bonaparte Sts. 

Lincoln Park—Garfield Ave. and Mohawk St. 

Talcott—169 West Adams St. 


PRIVATE KINDERGARTENS 89 

Alumnae Kindergarten—65th St. and Champlain 
Ave. 

Graham School—45th St. and Union Ave. 

Erie Chapel^—Erie and Noble Sts. 

Sixth Presbyterian—36th St. and Vincennes Ave. 
Olivet Presbyterian Mission—245 Clybourn Ave. 
Two Kindergartens. 

Misses Ganse—1709 Deming Court. 

Misses Stickney—718 Winthrop Ave., Edgewater. 
Unity Industrial School—80 Elm St. 

Ravenswood—at Ravenswood. 

Chicago Preparatory—3715 Langley Ave. 

St. Paul’s—30th St. and Prairie Ave. 

Chicago Ave. — Chicago and La Salle Aves. 

Mrs. Mary B. Willard—Evanston, Ill. 

Alumnae—300 Maxwell. 

All Souls—39 Oakwood Boulevard. 

Beardsley School—881 Monroe St. 

Clark Street — Gtalian) 505 Clark St. 

Drexel—Eda St., between 36th and 37th. 

Dale—1840 Belmont Ave. 

Golding—1831 Frederick St. 

Hutchinson—214 53rd St. 

Hull House—335 S. Halsted St. 

Mrs. Kirkland’s—40 Scott St. 

Loring—2535 Prairie Ave. 

Martin — 4320 Lake Ave. 

Margaret Etta Creche—24th St. and Wabash Ave. 
Miller—Sheridan Ave., 6427 Woodlawn Park. 
Milwaukee Avenue—577 and 579 Milwaukee Ave. 
Morrison—Ashland Boul. and Adams St. 

Raymond Mission—30th and Poplar Sts. 

Sedgwick Street—388 Sedgwick St. 

Lincoln Street—-Ambrose and Lincoln Sts. 

Home for the Friendless—20th St. & Wabash 
Ave. 






















LAKE GENEVA FRESH-AIR ASSOCIA¬ 
TION. 

Chicago, III. 

“The Holiday Home,” at Lake Geneva, Wis., 
belonging to this association, is a “summer resort” 
for poor children and working girls and mothers 
residing in or near Chicago. The fourth annual re¬ 
port gives the total number in the Home during 
1891 as being 461; of these 135 were “working girls, ” 
162 little girls, and 163 boys. “To prevent the 
association of the virtuous with the more vicious 
classes, ” the report says that last year, “as far as 
possible, deserving convalescents have been sent 
out.” Its Treasurer’s report gives: Receipts, 
$ 5 , 22 ^; disbursements, ^4,764; from individual do¬ 
nations, ^3,888; from entertainments, etc , ^1,471. 
Provisions and articles of use for the Home were 
also received. The Association has no endowments 
or religious affiliations. Because of the prevalence 
of smallpox in the city the Home was not opened 
in 1894. 

R. T. Crane, President. 

Miss M. D. Sturges, Treasurer, 107 Pine St. 

ai 


THE MAURICE PORTER MEMORIAL HOS- 
PITAL FOR CHILDREN. 


606 Fullerton Ave. 

Object: “ The free care of sick children.” 

It is especially intended to reach such cases as re¬ 
quire special attention on the part of surgeon, 
physician and trained nurse. All kinds of emergency 
and non-contagious diseases of children under 14 
years of age are admitted without formality, regardless 
of race, creed or nationality. The hospital was 
founded in 1882 by Mrs. Julia F. Porter. In 1886 
the present grounds were purchased and building 
erected, especially designed and thoroughly equipped 
for hospital work. In the latter part of 1896, a large 
wing was added, accommodating fifty children. 

Mrs. Porter’s gift of ^2,500 a year and two beds ^250, 
each supported by friends, is the only endowment, 
and the hospital is dependent upon voluntary con¬ 
tributions for the remainder of its support. The 
additions of ’96 provide a fine operating room and a 
room for isolating contagious diseases developed in 
the hospital. 

In the year 1896, 100 children were cared for; 76 
dismissed; 24 remain; 34 surgical; 63 medical; 3 eye 
and ear. Board of Managers: Mrs. Julia Porter, 
Honorary President; Mrs. Joseph Bowen, Acting 
President; Mrs. E. B. McCagg, Vice-President; Mr. 
Dunlap Smith, Treasurer. Medical staff includes 
Drs. Miller, Harris, Christopher, Fiske and Quinlan. 

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MAURICE PORTER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN. 











MARGARET ETTER CRECHE. 

2356 Wabash Ave. 

Nursery. 

Kindergarten. 

Employment for Mothers. 

The object of the Creche is the care during the 
day of the little . children of mothers obliged to 
work away from home. 

It aims through kindness, cleanliness, and a well 
appointed kindergarten, to educate the children in 
a desire to become honest, industrious, law-abiding 
citizens—and to obtain employment for the rnothers, 
enabling them to support their children. 

It is open from 6:30 a. m. to 7 p. m. 

A charge of ten cents a day is made for one child 
and five cents for each additional child. 

The Creche had an attendance in 1894 of 11,442, 
an average of 36.5 a day. 

The building and grounds, 2423 Wabash Ave., 
have been purchased as a home for the Creche. 

The Creche is supported by contributions through 
the members of the Board and from an authorized 
solicitor, Mrs. S. Kearsey. 

No endowments and no religious affiliation. 

The receipts for the year 1894 were 1^3,421.12, the 
disbursements, $3,464.52. 

Mrs. V. D. Perkins, President. 

Mrs. H. M. Starkey, Treasurer. 

Mrs. Philander Pickering, Secretary. 


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NEWSBOYS’ HOME. 

1418 Wabash Ave. 

Incorporated j868 as 

^ The Newsboys’ and Bootblacks’ Association. 

Objects: “To provide a good Christian home for 
newsboys and bootblacks and other unprotected home¬ 
less boys; also to aid them in finding homes and 
employment in either the city or country.” 

Free Baths and Laundry occupy the first floor, 
also the dining-room, school-room, kitchen, wash¬ 
room and general play-room. Dormitories occupy 
the third and fourth floors. The School is in charge 
of a teacher paid by the board of education. 

Admissions to the Home.—All boys not otherwise 
provided for, and not eligible elsewhere, are received 
at the Home at any time upon personal application, 
regardless of color, nationality, creed or occupation. 
The number of boys received and registered, and 
which had “full privileges,” was 251 during 1893. 
Those who received “partial privileges,” such as 
bathing, laundrying their wearing apparel, receiv¬ 
ing and writing letters, leaving packages to be 
cared for, etc., numbered 249 additionally; whole 
number cared for, 500. 

As the policy is to encourage self-reliance, a 
charge is made of j 5 cents, when able to pay, for 
breakfast, supper and lodging. Lunch is provided 
and other care is freely extended when needed on 
account of sickness or for other causes. The aim 
is to furnish a home and instruction for homeless 
boys, who are trying to make their living on the 
street and elsewhere. 


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96 


newsboys’ home. 


The Home is supported by interests on investments 
and small charges paid by its inmates. Receipts for 
1891, ^4,998; disb., $4,981. The property is owned; 
no solicitors are employed; no religious affiliations. 

Wm. H. Rand, Pres.; A. P. Millar, V.-Pres; H. 
N. Higginbotham, Treas.; James Frake, Secretary, 
Eliza W. Bowman, Superintendent. 

AN illustrative CASE. 

The following letter is from a lad of 16 who was 
reported by a police officer coming from the Home as 
“sure to go to the bad unless transplanted, and that 
right quick.” The farmer who has taken him had 
given all his own boys a good schooling and upon 
seeing how bright the city waif was, at once sent him 
to school, encouraging a decided aptitude for art, of 
which he detected abundant evidence: 

Alexandria, Minn., Jan. ist, 1897. 
Secretary, Bureau of Labor and Transportation: 

Dear Friend: —It has been a very long time since 
I have heard from you, but I suppose it was my 
fault, because you wrote me a letter some months 

ago and I have never answered it. Eddie P--, 

whom you sent out here shortly after I came out, is 
living with a good Christian family and is getting 
along nicely. How are his brothers getting along? 
Miss Bowman sends me The Appeal, a paper pub¬ 
lished by the Home. 

Mr. Visher, I have a favor to ask of you. I am 
trying to find a company where I can sell some orig¬ 
inal comic pen and ink sketches. 

I have good clothes now and am getting along 
“swell”. I weighed just no lbs. when I came out 
here, but I weigh 120 now. Isn’t that quite a gain? 

For Christmas I got an ulster, a suit of clothes, a 
pair of shoes, a muffler, shirt, socks and underclothes, 
and I think I fared better than I would have done in 
Chicago. Yours very truly, G. W. S, 





OLD PEOPLE’S HOME. 

Indiana Ave. and 39TH Street. 

Object: “To provide a home for old people with¬ 
out regard to race, creed, or nationality, who have 
never been public paupers and ought not to be treated 
as such, and who are pecuniarily unable to provide 
for themselves. ”' 

The age of beneficiaries is sixty years; in special 
cases fifty-five years, and upwards. The admission 
fee is $300 and furniture for one room. The 23d 
annual report shows the number of inmates in 1895-6 
to be 70. The Home accommodates only women. 

Eight applicants were admitted and many were 
refused because of want of accommodations. 

The receipts in 1893-4 were $23,809.77. Expendi¬ 
tures in 1890, $13,220.95. Receipts from cash dona¬ 
tions in 1893-4, $4,398; from bequests and endow¬ 
ments, $19,411.54; through solicitors, $1,360.50. 
The net assets are $267,992—$123,500 in buildings 
and grounds, and $146,492 in interest-bearing in¬ 
vestments. 

The religious affiliations are Protestant. 

JosiAH Stiles, President. 

C. L. Raymond, Treasurer. 

S. M. Fuller, Matron. 


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PROTECTIVE AGENCY FOR WOMEN AND 

CHILDREN. 


Opera House Building, Room 8o6. Incorporated 

1888. 

Objects: “To secure justice for women and chil¬ 

dren; to give legal counsel free of charge, and to 


extend moral support to the wronged and helpless. ” 


COMPLAINTS. 

1887 

to 

1890 

1891 

1392 

1893 

1895 

1896 Total 

Complaints entered. 

33(;o 

1455 

1347 

1214 

2496 

3284 

13096 

Money claims. 

1108 

404 

306 

286 

249 

206 

2559 

Compl’nts of wives against husbands 

564 

283 

244 

233 

192 

245 

1761 

Criminal assaults. 

61 

10 

.... 

20 

3 

6 

90 

Violation of factory laws. 

7 



« • • • 

• • . . 

• • • • 

7 

Chattel mortgages. 

145 

38 


21 

60 

32 

316 

Abduction. 

20 

10 


.... 


.... 

30 

Seduction. 

8 






8 

Destitution ... 

38 

40 

i 62 

103 



420 

Bastardy. 

81 

36 

13 

29 

22 

26 

207 

Sewing machine frauds. 

4 

4 




• • • • 

8 

Frauds, money and goods. 

148 

53 

89 

iii 

ii 

10 

420 

Advice wanted. 

188 

69 

2€5 


101 

139 

762 

Employment wanted. 

97 

44 

95 

97 

48 

48 

407 

Cruelty. 

22 

8 

13 

3 

39 

19 

104 

Miscellaneouss. 

807 

456 

174 

323 

217 

231 

1760 

Guard’s’p matters in Probate Court.. 



9 

* • • • 


3 

12 

Calls for servants. 



17 




45 

AmcuHt of money collected annually $8548 $1923 $864 $2945 $3079$1785$19179 


Total amount collected in ten years, $19,179. 


“The work of the Protective Agency is carried on by 
voluntary contributions made by interested friends. 
Since 1890 the members of the governing board, of 
which there are not less than twenty-one, pledged 
themselves to raise $100 annually, besides the ^5 
membership fee. The sum thus raised, with some 
regular contributions from friends, averages $2,635.25. 
The Agency employs a firm of lawyers for the nec¬ 
essary court and legal work, and their pay, with 
rent of rooms and salaries of agent and assistants, 
comprise the larger part of the running expenses. 

“Advice and legal services are given without 
charge. The character of the work changes notice- 

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protective agency for women and children 99 


ably from year to year. There is a constantly in¬ 
creasing tendency towards the quiet and thoughtful 
adjustment of difficulties. The advisory features are 
considered the most helpful and hopeful indications.” 

Mrs. Wm. H. Rand, President. 

Mrs. John W. Cloud, Vice-President. 

Mrs. S. C. Tobin, Second Vice-President. 

Mrs. Casey A. Wood, Recording Secretary. 

Mrs. Chas. H. Conover, Corresponding Secretary. 

Mrs. Herbert C. Metgalf, Treasurer. 

Mrs. Annie B. Wakefield, Agent. 

Miss Margaret Knowlton, Assistant Agent. 

Chas. Alling, Jr., Attorney. 


PROVIDENT HOSPITAL AND TRAINING 
SCHOOL. 

Corner 2 gTH and Dearborn Sts. Incorporated 
Feb., 1891. 

Objects: "First, the proper caring for the sick 
and injured; and, secondly and especially, the open¬ 
ing of a new field of useful and noble employment 
for colored women, who are otherwise barred from, 
lucrative and respectable occupations. ” 

From May 4th, 1891, the date of the opening, to 
June ist, 1894, the number of patients treated were 
526, an average of 175 per year. The total number 
of days of sickness were 9,135,and the daily average 
number of patients were 8. 

The 3rd annual report shows: 197 patients treated 
during the year, 1893-94; of these 152 were Afro- 
Americans, 10 Irish, 8 Germans, 26 other national¬ 
ities; 128 were discharged as recovered, 47 as im¬ 
proved, 3 as not improved, and 19 died. 

The Graduating Class for the year consisted of six 
nurses, and there are now seven nurses undergoing 
a course of training in the School and Hospital,cov¬ 
ering 18 months. There have been forty-five appli¬ 
cants desiring to become pupil nurses;because of want 
of accommodation only four were accepted. Eight 
calls for nurses for private duty, received and answered. 

Receipts, June ist, 1894, from donations and en¬ 
dowments, ^2,533.30; from patients, ^2,881.50. Ex¬ 
penditures, ^6,045.48. Three beds are endowed by 
H. H. Kohlsaat, F. D. Haskell and P, D. Armour. 

Lloyd G. Wheeler, President. 

Theo. W. Jones, Vice-President. 

D. H. Williams, Treasurer. 

C. E. Bentley, Secretary. 

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SCHOOL CHILDREN’S AID SOCIETY. 

158 West Monroe Street. 

Old High School Building, near Halsted St. ' Telephone 1559 Main. 


Object: “To clothe destitute children in order 
that they may attend the public school decently and 
comfortably clad.” 

The society was organized in 1889 by Mrs. Kath¬ 
arine E. Tuley, when the law on compulsory edu¬ 
cation was first enacted. The work is under the 
supervision of the Woman’s Club, two representa¬ 
tives being appointed from each of its six depart 
ments. 

The Society presents to the public the following 
report of its work, commencing Nov. 7th, 1893, and 
ending March 13th, 1894, when it closed its work 
for the year: During this time it has clothed 4,200 
children. 

The names of the children, ages, nationality, oc¬ 
cupation and income of parents, name of school the 
children attend, number of garments given, and 
other facts considered necessary are entered in a 
day-book and kept for reference. 

The following goods have been purchased and dis¬ 
tributed by the Society during the season: 

Shoes, pairs. 

Stockings, pairs. 4»^45 

Boys’ suits. 15297 

Mittens (special fund) pairs . 48 

Dress goods and skirtings, yards.35^70 

Linings for same, yards.609 

Gingham for aprons, yards. 7^3 

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SCHOOL children’s AID SOCIETY 


All of the dresses, skirts and aprons were made 
either at the Women’s Emergency Rooms or by 
ladies’ societies, free of charge. 

The cash receipts of the Society for the year were 
^87,570.46, the disbursements the same. As no sal¬ 
aries are paid, the running expenses have been, not 
counting printing and postage, ^43.55. 

The Board of Education assists the Society. It 
authorized the Thanksgiving collection from the 
public schools, which gives it its largest revenues, 
^3,736.58. It furnishes a distributing room, with 
heat and janitor service, and since November has 
delivered all the clothing that the Society has sent 
to the schools. 

Besides the clothing purchased by the Society, 
large quantities have been donated by individuals, 
societies, and merchants from other cities as well 
as our own; 400 garments having been contributed 
by one society. The Society has set “Charity 
Globes” in many places of business,similar to those 
of “The Daily News Fresh Air Fund.” 

At Christmas the West End Woman’s club raised 
$i85.oo,with which it purchased shoes and stockings 
for the Polk St. school. It has also expended 
$150.00 for shoes and stockings and $50 for under¬ 
wear and boys’ suits for the Brainard, Goodrich, 
Tilden, Foster and Walsh schools; and lastly, it has 
given employment, in making clothes for school 
children,to fifty-three destitute women in their own 
homes at $2.00 per week. The money thus spent in 
material and wages amounts to $700.00, making a 
total of $1,085.00 


SCHOOL children’s AID SOCIETY 


Emma Cousen Dainty, Chairman. 

Mrs. a. F. Vollmer, Treasurer. 

Miss Grace Temple, Secretary. 

Miss Georgia A. Bacon, Recorder. 

Mrs. Helene Stanton, Chairman Purchasing 
Committee. 

Mrs. Sarah V. Foote, Chairman Investigating 
Committee. 

Mrs. Cornelia D. Heile, Chairman Publication 
Committee. 


THE ARMOUR INSTITUTE. 

Cor. 33RD. St. and Armour Ave. 

Mission. 

Kindergarten. 

These charities are connected with the Armour 
Institute. 

The principal feature of the Armour Mission 
is a large Sunday School, with an enroll¬ 
ment of 2,200, and an average attendance for 
the year 1893, of 1,656 scholars. It emphasizes the 
care and training of children and youth. A special 
service for children is held each Sunday morning. 
There is a young men’s association, the Saturday 
Night Club organized for literary and social pur¬ 
poses, and a similar young women’s club. Mothers’ 
Meetings are held regularly for the improvement of 
the home life. The Armour Battalion is composed 
of three companies of boys, numbering 150, which 
gives a military drill and aims to build up habits of 
sobriety and purity. A girl’s corps has two com¬ 
panies of 70, with a drill and physical and moral 
culture. All the privileges of the mission are free. 

Rev. Duncan C. Milner is its Pastor. 

The Kindergarten accommodates about 150 pupils 
from 3 to 6 years, and has a superintendent and ten 
teachers. It is free and open daily from 9. a. m. 
to 12 M., excepting Saturdays and Sundays. 


105 


THE ARMOUR INSTITUTE 


The Institute is erected on a site adjoining the 
Mission, at an expense of $250,000. It is a Tech¬ 
nological School, with departments for Academic 
training and also for instruction in dress-making, 
cooking and domestic science. All who are able 
are expected to pay tuition. Special arrangements 
are made for qualified students unable to pay, as 
it is not a free school. 

The investments in property and equipment of the 
buildings of the Armour Institute, Mission, and 
“Flats” aggregate more than $1,500,000. The in¬ 
come from the 213 department buildings is devoted 
to and supports the entire enterprise. Mr. Joseph F. 
Armour made a bequest of $100^000 for a building 
devoted to the training and care of children. His 
brother, Philip D. Armour, has increased this with 
donations of his own. The Mission has been duly 
incorporated and the property deeded in trust to a 
Board of Directors consisting of: 

Philip D. Armour, 

John C. Black, J. O. Armour, 

P. D. Armour, Jr. 

Rev. Frank W.Gunsaulus,D. D., President of the 
Armour Institute. 



FRESH-AIR FUND SANITARIUM IN LINCOLN PARK. 































THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS FRESH-AIR 
FUND. 

123 Fifth Ave., Tel. Main 1316. . 

Victor F. Lawson, Chas. M. Faye, H. M. Dewey, 

President. Sec. and Manager. Treasurer. 

Sanitarium for Sick Babies in Lincoln Park. 

The Daily News Sanitarium for sick babies closed 
its tenth season on Saturday, Sept. 18, 1896, after a 
successful run of eighty-nine days in fifteen weeks— 
the season made a week short of the usual time, be¬ 
cause of cold weather. The Sanitarium opens on 
the second Monday in June and closes the last 
Saturday in September. During the season, the 
Sanitarium received and cared for 14,773 babies, 
15,893 mothers and 36,969 children, while 70,209 
visitors saw the work carried on day by day, making 
the daily average attendance 1,549. Of the babies 
received, 3,957 were given course treatment; the 
complete record of each case being set forth in the 
history book of the Sanitarium Medical Department. 
Of these little sufferers, 2,163 were males and 1,794 
females; the death list shows eighteen males and 
sixteen females, leaving a clear life-salvage of 3,923 
babies: 10,616 babies were simple “hammock cases,” 
needing only bathing, proper food and clothing. 
The treatment of a baby includes thorough instruc¬ 
tion to the mother, as to how best to care for her 
offspring. 


107 


I08 THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS FRESH AIR FUND. 

The financial report for 1896 shows a balance 
from 1895 and receipts from the public of a total of 
$13,658.67, with expenditures on behalf of the San¬ 
itarium of the $11,041.97, leaving a balance of 
$2,616.70 for use in extensive repairs, changes and 
painting, with a deficit probable on the opening day 
for 1897. During 1896, the executive expenses—in¬ 
cluding printing, postage, clerk hire, etc.—amounting 
to $3,094.39, all of which was paid by the Daily 
News. Every dime or dollar contributed to the Fresh 
Air Fund is expended on the Sanitarium and its 
proteges. The Daily News always pays every penny 
of executive expenses. 

The Daily News Sanitarium in Lincoln Park is 
the largest structure of its class in the world, being 
100 feet in width and 200 feet deep, built on a sys¬ 
tem of piles over the lake. The cost of building, 
and equipment for the first season’s work, was about 
$13,000. The Fresh-Air Fund is supported by the 
voluntary contribution of the people, very largely 
through the “Children’s Charity Globes,” which are 
familiar to Chicago residents, more than 500 of these 
globes being placed in business houses. 

At the Sanitarium everything is absolutely free. 
Mrs. Mary Gross Canfield is the matron. There are 
no endowments, no religious affiliations, and no so¬ 
licitors are employed. Any person soliciting money 
or goods, or favors of any sort, in the name of the 
Fresh-Air Fund is a fraud and should be turned over 
to the police. 


THE STORY OF 


FIVE YEARS IN THE NINETIES. 

AT THE FRESH-AIR FUND SANITARIUM. 

1892. Contributions from all sources, ^5,632.26. 
Infants, mothers and children to the number of 
48,641 were received and cared for between June 23 
and October i. The Daily Neivs paid ^2,032.66 for 
executive expenses. 

1893. Contributions from all sources, ^7,449.56. 
From June 12 to September 30, there were 44,882 
infants, mothers and children cared for, and 106,375 
visitors received. The Daily News paid $1,288.67 for 
executive expenses. 

1894. Contributions from all sources, $12,906.95. 
During the sixteen weeks, from June ii to September 
29, there were cared for 10,560 sick babies, 14,179 
mothers and 36,635 children, a total of 62,374. 
During the same period 59,995 visitors inspected the 
Sanitarium, making a daily average attendance for 
ninety-five days of 1,288 persons. The Daily News 
paid $2,534.10 for executive expenses. 

1895. Contributions from all sources, $16,343.04. 
From Monday, June ii, to Saturday, September 28, 
the Sanitarium received 20,557 sick babies, 30,169 
mothers, 47,551 children and 94,354 visitors, making 
an average daily attendance of 2,028 persons. The 
Daily News paid $3,386.09 for executive expenses. 

1896. Contributions from all sources, $16,753.06. 
During the season of eighty-nine days, the Sanitarium 
received 67,635 babies, mothers and children, and 
70,209 visitors, making a daily average attendance of 
1,549 persons. The season was shorter than usual, 
because of cold weather. The Daily News paid 
$3,094.39 for executive expenses. 

Note— The word “ Contributions •’ includes any balance that may be car¬ 
ried over from year to year. 


109 


THE HOME OF DESTITUTE CRIPPLED 
CHILDREN. 

South-East Corner of Park Ave. and Paulina St., 
46 Park Ave. 

Objects: i. To provide a home for destitute crip¬ 

pled children and secure for them the comforts of 
life. 

2. To restore the use of limb, correct deformity, 
and ameliorate the sufferings of the incurable in as 
far as it can be done by the skill and wisdom of 
the most able orthopedic surgeons and physicians. 

3. To cultivate and improve the mental capacity 
by practical and judicious education. 

4. To develop by careful training any talent for 
handicraft that may give a purpose in life and ren¬ 
der the inmates at least partially self-supporting. 

Since its establishment in i8go the Home has cared 
for 135 children. The present capacity is forty, but 
an out patients department has been established, in 
1896, to care for crippled children in their own homes. 
When in proper condition children are placed out in 
family homes, a brother and sister were thus placed, 
together, recently with the aid of the Bureau of 
Labor and Transportation. 

Mrs. George Sherwood, President. 

Horace G. Teele, First Vice-President. 

F. A. Winkelman,- Second Vice-President. 

Mrs. E. a. Delano, Recording Secretary. 

Mrs. C. W. Earle, Corresponding Secretary. 

Jas. S. Hubbard, Treasurer. 

ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS. 

Dr. John Ridlow, Surgeon in Charge. 

Dr. E. a. Hoadley, Dr. A. B. Hosmer, 

Dr; Wallace Blanchard, Dr. F. S. Coqledge, 

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THE CIVIC FEDERATION OF CHICAGO. 

Incorporated Feb. 3, 1894. 

Object: “Anon-partisan, non-sectarian association, 
inviting the co-operation of all the forces that are 
now laboring to advance the municipal, philan¬ 
thropic, industrial and moral interests of Chicago.” 

CENTRAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION. 

51-53 La Salle St. 

Objects: “The purposes of the Association as for¬ 
mulated at its organization at The Auditorium Hotel 
December 12, 1893, were to raise funds to meet the 
then existing emergency; to disburse them as far as 
practicable through existing public and charitable 
agencies; to ascertain the need of the unemployed, 
and to secure co-operation in extending the needed 
relief. ” 

The immediate occasion was the presence in the 
city at the close of the World’s Fair of thousands 
of unemployed men, many hundreds of whom were 
without food or lodging and crowded at night into 
the corridors of the City Hall and into the various 
police stations. In the early fall a Citizens’ Com¬ 
mittee, appointed by the mayor, later the Confer¬ 
ence of Charities and then the Civic Federation, 
attempted to arouse the public conscience to the ex¬ 
treme emergency there was upon the community, and 
the need of prompt action in the way of relief. The 
leaders of these and several other organizations met 
at the time and place above named, organized the 
Central Relief Association and authorized Mr. T. 
W. Harvey, the chairman of the meeting, to select 

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THE CIVIC FEDERATION 


50 representative men for the purposes above set 
forth. Executive officers and sub-committees rep¬ 
resenting the various industries were duly elected. 
The work of the Association has been conducted 
along the following lines: 

The Registration Department prepared a list by 
name and street number of 23,877 families apply¬ 
ing for relief to the charitable organizations of the 
city. Its information is at the service of any one 
showing a legitimate interest in any given case. 
Its cost June 20, 1894, had been ^4,313.58. 

The District Department organized the city, in 
part, into districts for local visitation and relief. 
Each neighborhood with its churches was invited to 
look after the cases of destitution within its boun¬ 
daries and assume the distribution of the needed 
aid. 

The Reference Department received applicants 
for aid of whatever description and directed them 
to the proper channels for relief; as it was the policy 
of the Association to have the needed aid given, 
when possible, through already existing charities, to 
whose reports reference is made for information 
concerning this indirect work. 

The Transportation Department secured free and 
reduced R. R. transportation. More than 500 persons 
were thus aided at a saving to the applicants of 
some ^5,000. 

The Supplies Department purchased to the value 
of ^14,945.33 provisions, flour, coal, etc., for the 
use of the kitchens and for free distribution through 


THE CIVIC FEDERATION 


the supply stations of the various districts, and 
14,074 articles of clothing, costing $6,324.71. 

The Meals and Lodgings Department, in pay¬ 
ment for work done, and upon the presentation of 
the Associations’ tickets, gave 462,084 meals at its 
three kitchens and 232,066 lodgings at twenty-one 
down-town lodging houses. 

The Employment Department gave men work at 
sweeping the streets. Each single man was allowed 
regularly three hours a day and paid at the rate of 
10 cents an hour, but in tickets redeemable in meals 
and lodgings or in clothing, if for an extra hour’s 
overtime. Married men were given more work, and 
their tickets were good for provisions. 4,500 men, 
of whom some 1,000 were married, were thus em 
ployed for an average of about two months at a cost 
of $81,442.83, or an average of $18.00 each. 

This Bureau also for a few weeks upon the clos¬ 
ing of the street work sent out to farms 10 families, 
12 orphans, and 40 single men, at an expense to 
the Association of $346.70, less than $5.00 per capita. 

One family was sent to central Illinois, to work 
on a farm; a week later a call came from a neigh¬ 
boring farmer for the wife’s sister, a widow with 
two children, and a few weeks after this the aged 
parents, with an unmarried son, were offered by the 
first farmer a cottage with several acres of land at a 
nominal rental, transplanting thus the whole tribe 
from poverty to plenty. 


BUREAU OF LABOR AND TRANSPORTATION 

719, 167 Dearborn St., N. E. Cor. Monroe. 


Object: ‘‘Transplanting to country homes.” “To 
secure work for families and individuals by trans¬ 
planting them from congested centers of population 
to rural districts.” Art. Org. II. 

Origin: The Bureau dates from the discontinuance 
of its work in 1894, by the Central Relief Association, 
whose labor and transportation departments it took up 
and duly incorporated, the Superintendent and three 
of its executive officers remaining in connection. 

Method: Through the hearrty co-operation of the 
leading agricultural journals, which open their col¬ 
umns to extended reports of the work, the Bureau is 
enabled to reach the better class of farmers, offering 
them such families and other help as are dependent 
on the benevolence of others and yet would be more 
than self supporting, if removed from the city and 
placed in country homes where their services are 
needed. Correspondence is invited, and such as are 
called for and agreed upon are sent out, the railroads 
according the Bureau a charity or half rate. 

Result: The calls for help have run up into the 
thousands. Only a fraction of the openings offered 
have been filled, the funds at the command of the 
Bureau being insufficient to cover the cost of the 
transportation and at the same time to pay for the 
necessary office help. Nothwithstanding this lack of 
funds, its showing is as follows: 


Report of The Bureau of Labor and 
Transportation, 1895 and 1896. 

TRANSPLANTED TO COUNTRY HOMES 

Persons in 165 families. 438 

Widowed mothers with their 

children. 292 

Orphan boys and girls. in 

Single men and women. 220 

Total. 1,061 

Per capita to Chicago Donors $1.47 


Financial Statement, 1895 and 1896. 


RECEIPTS 

Donations.$i ,490.01 

Desk room. 178.75 

Transportation—cash, etc . 4,001 97 

Total. 85.670,73 

EXPENDITURES 

Salaries. $804.90 

Rent of oflBce. 532.50 

Printing, Postage, etc. 246.56 

Transportation—cash, etc_ 3,950.47 

Cash on hand. 136 30 


#5,670.7^ 


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BUREAU OF LABOR AND TRANSPORTATION 


11^ 


DIRECTORS. 

Hon. Harvey B. Hurd, President. 

J. M. Wanzer, ist Vice-President. 

Frank E. Brown, Treasurer, 

Assistant Cashier, First National Bank. 
A. M. Lewis, C. H. Kerr, 

C. L. Wilder, T. B. Jeffery, 

C. H. Mulliken, C. H. Case, 

John ViSHER, Secretary, 719-167 Dearborn Street, 


ADVISORY board. 

Lyman J. Gage, Samuel W. Allerton, 

Hon. Wm. E. Mason, Col. W. P. Rend, 

T. W. Harvey, R. S. Tuthill, 

O. N. Carter, A. N. Waterman, 

Mrs. John C. Coonley. 


Cases Illustrative of the Work of the Bureau of 
Labor and Transportation. 

Lyman J. Gage, 

Dear Sir: Seeing your name as connected with 
a bureau which ‘‘transplants people to country homes” 

we write you for a boy;. 

The letter was handed by Mr. Gage to the Bureau’s 
Secretary with the assurance that the home was a 
good one. A Swiss boy was sent. To escape the 
military requirements of the fatherland, he had come 
to America. He was warmly welcomed in that New 
York State home, and the Bureau was thanked by 
both boy and farmer; the one for sending to such a 
home, and the other for sending “such a boy, a com¬ 
ical genius, quick-witted and up and ready for any¬ 
thing.” And a year later the boy still writes, wishing 
the Secretary “a Happy New Year, and that the Lord 
above us may give health and strength for many 
years to come, to do more such work as was done for 
me.” 

A girl was called for from Nebraska, and it was 
volunteered that no inquiry would be made as to her 
past. One was sent, who was yearning to live down. 



Il8 BUREAU OF LABOR AND TRANSPORTATION. 

and get far away from a past full of sin; though she 
was but sixteen as yet. The kind hostess writes: 
“We think a good deal of Jennie. She is certainly 
willing, capable, cleanly, and from the way the little 
folks take to her, she must be kind-hearted. I intend 
that no one shall know where she came from or 
‘make any deep scrutiny into her mutiny,’ for I feel 
sure she is a girl who deserves and will repay kindness. ” 

An orphanage for boys, upon learning that the 
bureau would place its inmates into country homes, 
surrendered them to be all thus scattered, some to 
Iowa,some to Minnesota and some throughout Illinois. 

A destitute soldier in the Salvation Army, out of 
work, and with a wife in the hospital for a month’s 
treatment, was sent to a well-to-do, up-to-date Min¬ 
nesota farmer, and having tried the place for a month, 
he sent for his wife to follow, as he was more than 
satisfied with his new home. 

A family turned out by an unpaid landlord one 
Saturday morning, found themselves sheltered early 
the next morning in a farm home at Menominee. 

Three hundred mothers with their children were 
sent out to hospitable farm homes. One was wel¬ 
comed in a ranchman’s family in Wyoming, and re¬ 
ported as being a good housekeeper and patient 
mother. 

A former school teacher with two children went to 
keep house for a widower with five children, giving 
good satisfaction. A widowed mother and three 
children went into an excellent farm home in Mis¬ 
souri, and a neighbor’s wife sent in for “a dozen 
more such women, as she is beloved by all, and 
such 2 l nice lady.” 

A farmer’s young daughter, a victim of misplaced 
confidence, was sent with her child to a family on the 
banks of the Dakota river, to the home of the founder 
of a female seminary. She wrote that if she had 
gone the world over, she could not have found a 
home better to her liking, and she did not leave un- 


BUREAU OF LABOR AND TRANSPORTATION. I IQ 

til she left as a bride to a man respected by all, “than 
whom I could not have found a better husband,” 
she writes. 

Reduced to a bedridden invalid by a stroke of 
paralysis, an inmate of hospitals for more than two 
years, and still using crutches, a young widow who had 
been stenographer to the World’s Fair management, 
came, upon her physician’s advice, to the bureau, 
seeking a place in the country. She was sent to an 
old couple who needed a companionable more than a 
strong woman, and more than mutual satisfaction 
was the outcome. 

Among the hundred boys sent out, there was an 
epileptic, who was transplanted upon the physician’s 
advice, to a country home in South Dakota. The 
last report concerning him, was that he was perfectly 
happy and in good health—all liking him. “He is 
one of us, and sings in the choir, is a leader in 
Sunday school and among the ‘Endeavorers. ’ ” 

One of Kentucky’s hospitable homes a year ago 
took three persons from the Bureau, one a cripple 
just from the hospital. After eight months, a coun¬ 
sel of physicians being called, his leg was amputated, 
but so endeared had he become that he still remains 
in the family, the “general superintendent of the barn¬ 
yard—with all the animals as his pets.” 

Kansas has some of the Bureau’s mothers with 
children, several absolutely destitute, large families, 
and one of Chicago’s seeming tramps reduced to 
abject want by sickness—not indolence, now render¬ 
ing satisfactory service to a widow owning a fine 
orchard overrun with weeds. 

A Red River valley wheat farmer of North Dakota 
has a father with his two half orphan boys taken from 
asylums into which he had placed them. 

Anticipating being laid off because of slack busi¬ 
ness, an enterprising hand in an electrotype foundry 
was sent out, in 1895, by the Bureau to a Michigan 
farm, where he is now manager, though still a minor. 


CHICAGO BUREAU OF ASSOCIATED 
CHARITIES. 

8 o Commercial National Bank Building. 

Objects; (i.) To bring into co-operation the phi¬ 
lanthropic forces of the city and to stimulate to or¬ 
derly effort the philanthropic impulses of the citizens 
of Chicago. 

(2.) To secure adequate knowledge concerning 
every applicant for relief. 

(3.) To train and direct a body or volunteer friendly 
visitors to the poor in their homes. 

(4.) To help the poor when possible to a position 
of self-support. 

(5.) To prevent imposition and fraud. 

(6.) To extend knowledge of the condition of the 
poor in the community. 

Inquiries by mail or by telephone concerning fam¬ 
ilies in need will receive prompt attention from the 
central or district offices. 

Eight thousand three hundred instances were re¬ 
ported to the Bureau of aid given by co-operating 
societies and agencies. For 3,120 families aid in 
material, employment, or medical attendance was 
secured through the members of the Bureau. 

Three hundred volunteers assist the agents in se¬ 
curing proper help for the needy. The Bureau does 
not collect or distribute a relief fund of its own. 

Expenses for the year ending Nov. 15, 1896, were 
paid by the Civic Federation. 

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CHICAGO BUREAU OF ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. I 2 I 


DIRECTORS. 


Lyman J. Gage. 

Ferd. W. Peck. 

Robert M. Orr. 
Merritt Starr. 

Wm. H. Beebe. 

Wm. a. Giles. 

Albion W. Small. 

Mrs. H. Solomon. 

I. R. Jeffers. 

Jenkin Lloyd Jones. 

T. D. Hurley. 

R. A. White. 

Ralph Metcalf. 

L. J. Wolf. 

Miss Julia C. Lathrop. 

Chairman Executive Committee, 
Chas. R. Henderson. 
President Lower North District, 
Mrs. j. M. Flower. 

Prest, ‘34th Ward (North) Dist., 

Leslie Lewis. 

Prest. 3d, 4th and 6th Ward Dist. 

Wm. White Wilson. 
President Northwestern District, 

L. J. Wolf. 

President Wesi 
Edward 


Franklin MacVeagh. 
Porter B. Fitzgerald. 
Wm. a. Vincent. 

Elliott Durand. 

W. P. Rend. 

Wm. j. Onahan. 

Mrs. Jas. M. Flower. 
Mrs. F. B. Tracy. 

Chas. R. Henderson 

M. E. Cole. 

Jas. S. Rogers. 

Graham Taylor. 

N. B. Delemater. 

Mrs. E. H. Keen. 

Sarah H. Stevenson. 

Chairman Finance Committee, 
Porter B. Fitzgerald. 
President Stock Yards District, 

H. C. Herring. 

President Englewood District, 

I. R. Jeffers. 

, President Western District, 

M. E. Cole. 

President Northern District, 

S. C. Edsall. 

: Side District, 

Payson. 


E. G. Keith, Treasurer, Metropolitan Bank. 

Philip W. Ayres, Secretary, Central Office, 80 Com¬ 
mercial National Bank building, S. E. Corner Mon¬ 
roe and Dearborn. 

Miss Rebecca Brickell Holmes, Assistant Secre¬ 


tary. 

The Central Office is open from. 9 to 6, daily. 
Telephone, Main 3695. 


122 CHICAGO BUREAU OF ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. 

District Offices. 

Name, Location, Superintendent and Office Hours. 

Stock Yards District—From 39th to 55th Streets, 
the lake to Western Avenue. A. M. Simons, 4638 
Ashland Avenue. 9 to 10 A. M. and 5 to 6 P. M. 

Englewood District—From 55th Street south to 
city limits, between State Street and Western Ave¬ 
nue. Chas. R. Weller, 308 W. 63d Street. 9 to 10 
A. M. and 5 to 6 P. M. 

Thirty-Fourth Ward (North) District—From 
55th to 79th Streets, between State Street and Stony 
Island Avenue. Miss C. E. Wallace, 368 E. 63d 
Street. 9 to 10 A. M. and 5 to 6 P. M. 

Third, Fourth and Sixth Wards Districts—From 
26th to 39th Streets, the lake to the river. Superin¬ 
tendent, W. R. Hunter. 3346 State Street. 9 to 10 
A. M. and 4 to 5 P. M. 

Northwestern District—From Erie Street (Kin- 
zie Street, west of Paulina) north to Fullerton Ave¬ 
nue, between the river and California Avenue. R. 
A. Kilbourn, 952 Milwaukee Avenue. 9 to 10 A. M. 
and 4 to 5 P. M. 

Northern District—From North Avenue to Mont¬ 
rose Boulevard (Graceland Avenue west of Seminary 
Avenue), between the lake and the river. Mrs. C. J. 
Sterling, 723 Sheffield Avenue, corner Diversey. 9 to 
10 A. M. and 4 to 5 P. M. 

West Side District—From Ohio to 12th Streets 
and between Paulina Street and the river. Walter 
Vose Gulick, 55 S. Morgan Street. 9 to 10 A. M. 
and 4 to 5 P. M. 

Lower North District—From North Avenue south 
to the river, between the lake and the river. A. D. 
Coulter, 112 Sedgwick Street. 9 to 10 A. M. and 4 
to 5 P. M. 


THE NEEDLEWORK GUILD OF AMERICA. 

Object: “The object of the Guild is to furnish 
new, plain, suitable garments to meet the great 
need of our Hospitals, Homes, and other Charities.” 

Men, women and children may become members. 

Rules: All members must contribute annually two 
or more new articles of useful clothing. 

Any member obtaining contributions from ten or 
more persons (or the equivalent, twenty-two gar¬ 
ments) becomes a Director; not less is required of 
each Officer. 

CHICAGO BRANCH. 

In Chicago there are seventy-three sections or¬ 
ganized, including at least 3,500 women. Last year 
it distributed 5,734 garments through the hospitals 
and other charitable institutions of the city. 

Officers of the Chicago Branch, not including the 
72 presidents of sections: 

Mrs. Potter Palmer, Honorary President. 

Mrs. Charles D. Hamil, President, 2126 Prairie 
Avenue. 

Mrs. Norman T. Cassette, 90 Twenty-first St. 

Mrs. Gwynn Garnett, Treasurer, 3604 Grand 
Boulevard. 


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THE WORKING WOMAN’S HOME ASSO¬ 
CIATION. 


21 South Peoria St. 

The Minnetonka Home, 21 S. Peoria St. 
The Minnetonka Free Dispensary, 

The Minnetonka Free Fresh Air Cottage, 
Lake Bluff, Ill. 

The Minnetonka Home, 21 S. Peoria St. Incor¬ 
porated and established April, 1890. 

Object: “To maintain a lodging and boarding 

house where working-women can find a comfortable 
and respectable home at a moderate price. ” Its aim 
is to givep rotection to women, strangers in the city, 
and to help those willing to help themselves to 
live comfortably. It assists a large number to find 
employment free of charge, and tries by counsel and 
using every influence to help those under its care. 

The Association added to the building it occupies 
last year and furnished the whole with sanitary ap¬ 
pliances and steam heat, and with a special boiler to 
supply its bath-rooms with an abundance of warm 
water. 

The Home can accommodate about 40 persons. 
During last year it received and cared for between 
800 and 900. Any respectable applicant is made 
welcome. Those without any funds are tem¬ 
porarily cared for and assisted to find employ¬ 
ment. 


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126 THE WORKING WOMAN’S HOME ASSOCIATION 

The Minnetonka Fresh-Air Cottage, 

Lake Bluff, Ill. 

The association owns a cottage at Lake Bluff, 
Ill., on the C. & N. W. Ry., where by the shore of 
the lake in the shade of a native grove any working 
girls, singly or in clubs, or Sunday school classes, 
are welcomed for rest and recuperation during the 
summer heat. They are privileged with the free 
use of cooking and bathing facilities, hammocks and 
other comforts. 

Applications for rooms, with dates, should be made 
to the association at the Home, 21 S. Peoria St, 
Chicago. Mrs. E. Stegman, Matron. 

The Minnetonka Free Dispensary is located at 
the hospital, corner West Van Buren and Marshfield 
Avenue, and was established in 1893. Many receive 
medical care and medicines, irrespective of age, creed, 
race or shx. Dr. Luella Day-Underhill, with assist¬ 
ants, physician in charge. 

The Minnetonka Association received last year from 
board ^2,395.15, and from donations and other 
sources ^319.68; total, ^2,714.83, besides the gro¬ 
ceries, furniture, medicines, etc., donated. The 
household expenses were ^2,516.13, leaving a balance 
of ^198.70. 

A. Chaiser, President Frank E. Pearson, First 
Vice-President George P. Bay, Treasurer. Mrs. 
R. A. Emmons, Secretary. Frank E. Brown, Auditor. 
Laura G. Fixen, Business Manager. 


VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION. 

Room 907 Masonic Temple. 

Object: “To furnish skilled attendance to the 
sick poor; to promote cleanliness and to teach 
proper care of the sick.” 

This association was incorporated in November, 
1890. It employs nine trained nurses, wearing 
special costumes. During the year from December, 
1892, to December, 1893, the report shows, the 
association cared for 2,579 different patients and 
made 16,580 visits. The visits are limited to 40 
minutes’ duration. They are made not only to the 
very poor, but to those living on incomes which do 
not enable them to employ a paid nurse. 

The nurses often assist physicians in surgical 
cases, of which there were 211 last year. The ma¬ 
ternity cases numbered 615. There were 115 cases 
of infectious fevers; 172 patients were sent to hos¬ 
pitals; 65 per cent of the patients were given emer¬ 
gency relief, food, medicine, clothing, etc.; others 
were referred to relief societies. The Association 
has no religious affiliations; employs no solicitor; 
owns no property; has no endowments. 

Its receipts for 1893 were ^13,141.06. Its dis¬ 
bursements were $10,153.16= Its support is from 
voluntary contribution. 

ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. 

The following are four of eleven cases aided in 
one day, by one of the nine nurses. 

Third case—Italian boy with burnt leg. Limb 
dressed. 


127 


128 


VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION 


Fifth case—Baby with bronchitis. Mother in¬ 
structed about giving bath and oil rub and prepar; 
ing pneumonia jacket. Note sent to free doctor to 
attend case, order given to have necessary prescrip¬ 
tion filled. 

Sixth case—Jewish woman, just confined. Tem¬ 
perature and pulse taken and recorded, douche given 
by doctor’s written orders, half bath and alcohol 
rub, hair combed, bed made, cup of cocoa pre¬ 
pared, baby washed and dressed, room swept and 
tidied. (Sheets, pillowslips and infant’s outfit 
loaned at this place.) 

Tenth case —Boy, with hip disease. Wound 
dressed. 

Mrs. E. C. Dudley, President. 

Mrs. James L. Houghteling, First Vice- 
President. 

Miss Cornelia B. McAvoy, Second Vice-Presi¬ 
dent. 

Mrs. Hermon Butler, Secretary. 

Mrs. William P. Conger, Treasurer. 


WASHINGTONIAN HOME. 

566 TO 572 W. Madison St. Incorporated Feb., 1867. 

Object: “The care, cure and reclamation of ine¬ 
briates. ” 

The average length of stay in the Home is from 
four to eight weeks, the charge for board and care 
being from $10 to ^15 per week for the first week 
and from $$ to ^10 per week thereafter. 

Over 10,500 patients have received the benefits of 
the institution since its organization. Many of 
these are now in prominent situations in business 
and professional life. The treatment is medical and 
moral—pathological, having, it is believed, no ill 
effects. It is based on thirty-one years of experi¬ 
ence. 

Residents of Cook County who are not able to pay 
are treated free of charge to the extent of the capac¬ 
ity and means of the Association. 

The Martha Washington Home, N. E. Corner 
Western and Graceland Aves., is the* female de¬ 
partment of the Washingtonian Home Association, 
and under the same management. 

The number of inmates in the two Homes during 
1893 was 1626. Receipts $33,590.78: expenditures 
$35,783.3,7. The support is from pay patients and 
investments. No solicitors are employed. 


WESTERN SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRES¬ 
SION OF VICE. 

The Chicago Branch, Y. M. C. Association Bldg., 
H. D. Penfield’s Office. 

Object: “To put forth special efforts to suppress 
the sale and circulation of obscene literature, illus¬ 
trations, advertisements and articles . for indecent 
and immoral uses.” 

Up to the first of February last, 451 persons have been arrested, of whom 
372 have been convicted, and 363 were sentenced. The prison sentences^g- 
gregate 104 years and the fines amount to $60,000. The seizures include 
25,000 obscene pictures, more than 500,000 pages of vulgar reading and many 
thousands of articles intended for immoral purposes. The Society’s agent 
is commissioned as a postofflce inspector, though he does not receive a 
government salary. 

The Society has branch offices in Cincinnati, St. 
Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, and Lincoln, 
Nebraska. It affiliates with the New York Society 
of which Anthony Comstock is Secretary . These 
branches are in charge of Secretaries, who receive 
no salaries, and give only a part of their time to the 
work. Only two salaried agents are employed for 
the whole field to which its report refers. 

The Society owns no buildings, has no endo w- 
ments, and no religious affiliations. It employs no 
solicitors; is supported by subscriptions; the member¬ 
ship fee is ^5. Receipts and disbursements for 1893 
were ^5. 557 - 93 - 

H. D. Penfield, President. 

Henry W. King, Vice-President. 

E. G. Keith, Treasurer, Met. Nat. Bank. 

A. T. Hemingway, Secretary. 

R. W. McAfee, Ag’t, Drawer D 6 , St. Louis, Mo 
134 


WOMAN’S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO. 

Cor. Rhodes Ave. and 32ND St. 

Dispensary. 

Training School for Nurses. 

Objects: “The treatment of the diseases and ac¬ 
cidents peculiar to women; the clinical instruction 
of students of medicine, and the practical training 
of nurses. ” 

The Hospital, during 1891, according to the 
twenty-first annual report, received and treated 290 


persons, having 146 surgical operations. 

Number admitted at full rates. 227 

Number admitted at special half rates or less. 29 

Number admitted free. 34 

Number of day services at full rates. 8511 

Number of day services special half rates or 

less. 1631 

Number of day services free. 2478 


The Dispensary gave 480 treatments to 84 persons. 

The Training School for Nurses has a class of 
22 young women, and a course of two years. Outside 
demands for trained nurses are also supplied. The 
receipts from this source were ^2,773.50; from pay- 
patients, $18,364.51. Total, $23,184.26; disburse¬ 
ments the same. The Hospital has no religious 
affiliations. 

Donors are asked to send their gifts without wait¬ 
ing for a personal appeal and thus save the expense 
of solicitors. 

ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. 

Ovariotomy resulted in the case of two very desti¬ 
tute widows in restoration to health and ability to 
resume life’s duties. 


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woman's HOPITAL of CHICAGO. 


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woman’s hospital of CHICAGO 


137 


A deserted woman was taken into the Hospital 
four weeks during confinement. 

An invalid young lady was restored to health. 

A widow with eight children to support became 
unable to work. She was operated on, staying six 
weeks, and is now at work and no longer dependent 
on her two little boys. 

Mrs. John B. Lyon, President. 

Mrs. JohnL. Corthell, Vice-President. 

Mrs. Melvin J. Neahr, Secretary. 

Mrs. V. D. Perkins, Treasurer. 

Executive Committee. 

Mrs. D. F. Crilly, Chairman. 

Mrs. W. G. Caldwell, Mrs. H. E. Scholle, 

Mrs. J.R. Mann, Miss A. D. Stone. 


WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE 
UNION. 


Headquarters, Room iii8, The Temple, LaSalle 
Street. 

Florence Crittenden Anchorage for Girls, 1349 
Wabash Avenue. 

Bethesda and Talcott Day Nursery and Kinder¬ 
garten, 133 Morgan Street. 

Hope Mission and Dispensary, 226 Milwaukee 
Avenue. 

Object: To promote the cause of temperance, 
purity and righteousness, not only by the education 
of public sentiment through public lectures and the 
distribution of literature, but by direct and personal 
work among the ignorant and unfortunate. For this 
purpose it has established the following- centers for 
rescue work: 

A Gospel Temperance meeting is held at the noon 
hour every day in Willard Hall, The Temple, where 
hundreds of men have been helped to a higher and 
better life. Besides the Secretary in charge a visitor 
is employed to follow up the cases and help those in 
need. 

The Bethesda and Talcott Day Nursery and 
Kindergarten, 133 Morgan Street. These missions 
were consolidated last year on account of the pres¬ 
sure of hard times. They now occupy commodious 
quarters surrounded by an acre of play ground. 
An industrial school is held every Saturday morning, 
and in the evening a meeting for the parents. A 
free kindergarten is held, daily, from 9 A. M. to 12 M. 

138 


woman’s CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 


139 


The average daily attendance in the Nursery is 28, 
in the Kindergarten 30, and in the Industrial School 
60. There have been 325 families aided during the 
last year. 

The Hope Mission, 226 Milwaukee Avenue. This 
was established in 1889 and is intended to reach the 
Scandinavian population. Gospel meetings are held 
nightly, except Saturdays. Sunday school, 9:15 A. 
M. A free reading room open all day. There is 
also a free dispensary and a free employment bureau, 
besides a five-cent temperance lunch, and a children’s 
meeting, with an average attendance of 125, every 
Monday night. 

The Florence Crittenden Anchorage, 1349 Wa¬ 
bash Avenue. Object: ‘‘To care for unfortunate 
girls who have been led astray and to protect the in¬ 
nocent and friendless from being led into the haunts 
of sin of a great city.” It was founded in 1886. 
During the past year 702 were admitted to the home, 
119 were placed in various positipns, 51 were sent 
home, 7 were married, 158 young mothers with their 
babes were cared for, 86 were sent to the hospital, 
and over 2,000 lodgings were given. The average of 
the family is twenty-six. The girls do the house¬ 
work. Hundreds have gone from the home who are 
now earning an honorable living. 

Receipts and expenditures. Central W. C. T. U. 


for 1896: 

Willard Hall, noon meeting. $ 2,123.90 

Hope Mission. 591.86 

Bethesda and Talcott Missions. 4,438.31 

Florence Crittenden Anchorage. 2,350.20 

General and office expenses. 898.24 

$10,402.51 








140 TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL AND SANITARIUM. 

There are no paid solicitors or endowments, the 
entire work being supported by free contributions 
from friends of the cause. 

Officers, Central W. C. T. U.: 

Mrs. Matilda B. Carse, President. 

Mrs. Margaret L. Howell, Vice-President. 

Mrs. Matilda E. Kline, Cor. and Office Secretary. 

Mrs. S. N. Schneider, Rec. Secretary. 

Mrs. Lovela A. Hagans, Treasurer. 

TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL AND 
SANITARIUM 
1619 Diversey Avenue. 

Object: “To demonstrate the successful treatment 
of both medical and surgical diseases without 
alcohol.” 

The Hospital was incorporated in 1884. During 
1895 the number of patients treated was 151. There 
is conducted in connection with the Hospital and on 
the same principles: 

The Training School for Nurses which has a class 
of 12 and a course of two years, outside demand being 
also supplied. The receipts for nine months of 1891 
were ^8,587; disbursements, ^8,003. The support 
is from pay-patients, donations and endowments. 

Mrs. Margaret Inglehart, President. 

Mrs. J. B. Hobbs, Vice-President. 

Mrs. Watson Thatcher, Rec. Secretary. 

Mrs. Ralph Greenlee, Cor. Secretary. 

Mrs. C. E. Bigelow, Treasurer. 





THE TEMPLE 


















































































Benevolent Duties Performed by the Police 
Department of Chicago. 


Nat ure of Duties Performed. 


Women and children cared for by 

matrons. 

Lost children found and restored 

to parents.;. 

Lodgers accommodated. 

Intoxicated persons assisted home. 
Persons rescued from drowning... 
Sick and injured persons taken to 

hospital.. . 

Sick and injured persons taken 

home. 

Sick and injured persons taken to 

station. 

Insane persons cared for. 

Destitute persons cared for. 

Lost children taken to parents .... 

Mad or crippled animals killed_ 

Abandoned children taken to 

Foundlings’ Home. 

Inebriates taken to Washingtonian 

Home. 

Persons taken to the House of the 

Good Shepherd. 

Persons taken to the Home for the 

Friendless. 

Persons taken to Errings Woman’s 

Refuge. 

Persons taken to St. Vincent’s 

Orphan Asylum. 

Persons taken to St. Joseph’s 

Orphan Asylum. ., 

Persons taken to County Agent.... 

Runaway horses overtaken and 
stopped. 


1893 

1892 

1891 

1890 

i88g 

20,159 

17,911 

13,160 

13,057 

' 1.974 

4,174 

4,692 

3.719 

2,826 

3,089 

88,138 

77,085 

55,565 

29,402 

30,925 

1,539 

2,078 

2,201 

1,951 

1.417 

77 

60 

263 

52 

38 

3,989 

2,908 

2,555 

1,944 

1,579 

2,256 

2,113 

2,068 

2,097 

1,360 

76a 

771 

819 

685 

506 

714 

755 

661 

635 

489 

9,129 

1,333 

636 

622 

509 

1,461 

1,184 

1,539 

1,404 

1,101 

146 

383 

172 

129 

288 

62 

48 

22 

5 

6 

323 

621 

200 

236 

152 

109 

53 

58 

35 

56 

48 

26 

9 

*7 

26 

72 

47 

25 

24 

22 

14 

29 

32 

16 

6 

24 

1 

17 

12 

23 

397 

269 

37 

13 

26 

76 

77 

86 

91 

68 

133,558 

112,444 

83,734 

55.267 

43,461 


Total 


469 

485 


Placed in Protestant Institutions 
Placed in Catholic Institutions.. 













































SPECIAL CHARITIES 


GERMAN SOCIETY OF CHICAGO. 

(BeutscbeOesellscbatt von CbicaGo*) 

49 LaSalle Street. 

"The objects of this Society are: In all possible 
ways to assist the German immigrants, chiefly by 
information and advice; to protect them by moral 
influence, and if necessary, by the laws against ill- 
treatment, imposition and swindling; to provide work 
for them and to assist them to continue their jour¬ 
ney; to restore to them their lost baggage; to pro¬ 
vide for the sick, free of charge, medical advice and 
medicine, and furnish those who are needy and in 
distress with material aid, as far as the means of 
the Society will permit. 

"Such aid and assistance shall also,as above indi¬ 
cated, be tendered those Germans who are already 
residents of the United States, and according to the 
judgment of the competent officers of the Society, 
such immigrants as may come from the neighboring 
States of Germany, and who have no representation 
here." 


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144 


GERMAN SOCIETY 


Summary of Relief in Money and Employment. 


Year. 

Families. 

ChiUren. 

Single 

Persons. 

Cash 

Expended. 

Employers. 

Employees. 

1885 

241 

619 

152 

$1,417.38 

2011 

2354 

1886 

148 

416 

167 

806.66 

2366 

2599 

1887 

240 

673 

221 

1,490.78 

2382 

25.30 

1888 

267 

691 

189 

1,560.91 

2197 

2249 

1889 

225 

618 

206 

1,318 09 

2325 

2258 

1890 

370 

981 

254 

2,160.08 

2923 

3097 

1891 

445 

1162 

202 

2,008 77 

3226 

3 i 69 

1892 

465 

1287 

202 

2,754 43 

3457 

3353 

1893 

585 

1653 

266 

3,460.96 

2852 

2577 

1894 

1173 

3545 

571 

5.442.75 

1630 

1620 

1895 

538 

1725 

322 

3,066.95 

2390 

2192 

1896 

471 1 

1 1447 

301 

2,833.54 

2606 

2415 


There were 821 applicants for relief during 1896, 
772 were granted by the German Society, 33 referred 
to other benevolent societies, and 16 were re¬ 
fused, after careful examination had proved the ap¬ 
plicants to be regular beggars, idlers or imposters. 
Aid was granted to families who were in need owing 


to the following causes: 

Death of the head of the family. 85 

Death of the mother. . 

Sickness of the head of the family. m 

Sickness of the mother or children.. 50 

Desertion of family. . 41 

Want of means and work. 171 

Old age and infirmity. 13 

TO SINGLE PERSONS. 

Sickness and inability to work. 62 

Want of means and work.. , 219 

Old age and infirmity. 20 


Coal was furnished in 79 cases, and board and 
lodgings paid for in 92 cases. Seven sick persons 
received medical aid and medicine, while seven were 
admitted to hospitals through its agency. 























GERMAN SOCIETY. 


H5 

Twenty-seven persons received legal protection and 
nine were recommended to the poor-house. 

There were received 702 letters from immigrants. 
The Society has no religious affiliations, and is sup¬ 
ported by the members, of which there are about 600, 
the annual fees, $4 and upwards, being collected by 
the collector of the Society. Its average annual re¬ 
ceipts are about ^4,000. It owns no buildings, but 
has $30,000 in interest-bearing investments. 

Its report says: “There are many reticent persons 
who rather starve than apply for aid, but there are 
still more who could very well earn a living for those 
depending on them, but who are not ashamed to ac¬ 
cept support, always repeating the old story about 
hard times, and never providing for them. Nothing 
is easier than to grant a beggar a little aid, but the 
Society believes it to be its duty not to deprive a 
worthy man for the sake of a professional beggar, in¬ 
creasing thus the number of the latter. It thorough¬ 
ly investigates in order not to waste its resources 
upon unworthy persons.” 

“The Chicago Relief and Aid Society comes to the 
relief of those Germans who have been in the city for 
some time and who are recommended to it by the 
German Society, while the former society turns over 
to us those who have been in the country but a short 
time.” 

Max Eberhardt, President. Albert F. Madle- 
NER, Vice-President. A. Klappenbach, Secretary. 
Julius Wegmann, Financial Secretary. Chas. Em¬ 
merich, Treasurer. 

Oscar Kuehne, Manager. C. Bircthmeier, Col¬ 
lector. 

DANISH RELIEF SOCIETY. 

Theodore Winholt, President, 477 W. Madison St. 

NORWEGIAN RELIEF AND AID SOCIETY. 

E. Strom, Secretary, 242 N. Curtis St. 








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ALTENHEIM—GERMAN OLD PEOPLE’S HOME 


























GERMAN OLD PEOPLE’S HOME. 

Harlem, Cook County, III. 

(Altenheim. Incorporated 1885.) 

world’s fair medal awarded. 

Objects: “To establish and maintain a home for 
aged Germans.” 

The Home is a spacious building, accommodat¬ 
ing 84 inmates, males and females. There are also 
hospital and laundry buildings. Twenty acres of 
land are owned and cultivated. “No paupers or former 
inmates of the Poor-house are admitted. The inmates 
of Altenheim are always led to feel that they are in 
their own Home,and have every inducement to enjoy 
truly and peaceably its many advantages.” 

The age of admission is from 60 years and up¬ 
wards. An admission fee of $300 is required for the 
age of 60 to 65; ^250 from 65 to 70; from 70 to 75, 
$200, and any age above 75, $150. Other conditions 
are a three years’ residence in Cook County, and a 
good character. It is regretted that many worthy 
applicants can not gain admittance, because more 
room and greater means are not at hand. 

The support is from endowments, $71,200, dona¬ 
tions, entertainments and the membership fees of 
two societies, one of men (Herren Verein), one 
of women (Frauen Verein). The fees are collected 
by a salaried agent. No solicitor is employed. 
There are no religious affiliations. 

Receipts since organization, 1883, $249,764.35; 

disbursements, $174,770.31. Receipts from Nov., 
1892, to Nov., 1893,$33,853.00, including legacy of 
$10,000; disbursements, $11,958. 

147 


148 GERMAN OLD PEOPLE^S HOME 

Contributors to the endowment fund are: C. Seipp, 
and heirs; P. Schoenhoven; Charles Wacker; A. 
C. Hesing; John Buehler; Carter H. Harrison; 
Gerhardt Foremann; Charles Kosminsky, and others. 

Altenheim was awarded a medal by the World’s 
Fair Commission for an exhibit of Photographic 
Views and Reports of the Institution, which gave 
“evidence of a charity well organized and admin¬ 
istered.” It also received an official letter of thanks 
from the Illinois Woman’s Exposition Board for ex¬ 
hibits of “Fancy Work and Sewing,” made by its 
old female inmates, ranging in age from 70 to 94. 

The two Societies have their own officers and elect 
annually a number of directors, these together 
forming the governing Board of Altenheim. 

Directors of Frauen Verein: 

Maria Werkmeister, President. 

Hedwig Voss, Secretary. 

Amalie Nabroth, Treasurer. 

Henriette Wolter, Financial Secretary. 

Directors of Herren Verein: 

J. C. W. Rhode, President. 

Geo. H. Rapp, Vice-President. 

Felix Buschick, Secretary. 

C. Mechelke, Financial Secretary. 

John Buehler, Treasurer. 


GERMAN HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO. 

754-756 Larrabee Street. 

Object: "To do the general work of a charitable 
hospital. ’’ 

During 1891 the report gives 714 as the total num¬ 
ber of patients cared for; 201 were charity, 112 part 
pay, and 401 pay patients; the average cost per pa¬ 
tient has been in 1891 ^26.77. The work is sup¬ 

ported by pay patients and donations; no solicitors 
are employed. Officers receive no remuneration. 
The buildings are owned, valued at $60,000. The 
Hospital is without religious affiliations, but is con¬ 
ducted on Christian' principles. Receipts in 1891 
were $20,666; expenses, $19,114. 

J. C. Burmeister, Secretary. 

THE INDUSTRIAL ORPHANAGE. 

1396 Van Buren Street. 

Object: To clothe, feed and educate orphan girls. 
This orphanage is conducted by five Roman Catholic 
Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Heart, but is 
independent of the Catholic church, the title to the 
property being in the name of the ^‘Rev. Mother” 
Elizabeth Cooling. 

Jan. 2nd, 1895, there were 41 girls in the orphan¬ 
age; Oct. 21, 1895, 51. Their ages vary from two to 
fourteen. One thousand meals were given to poor 
people. The cash donations for 1894 aggregated 
about $600.00. During 1895 until Oct. 21 there were 
received $384.75 from subscriptions, $740 from vari¬ 
ous collections. 

Elizabeth Cooling, Mother Superior, 

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ILLINOIS ST. ANDREW’S SOCIETY. 


Room 7, 81 S. Clark Street. Incorporated 1853. 

Object: “To relieve all deserving Scotch with 
cash, provisions, clothing, fuel and transportation, 
also to bury their dead in their lot at Rosehill Cem¬ 
etery. ” The objects of the Society are attended to by 
a Board of Managers, consisting of five members, of 
which Wm. Inglis is Chairman. 

Membership—None but Scotchmen, or the sons or 
grandsons of a native of Scotland shall be admitted 
as members of the Society. Meetings are held on 
first Thursday of Feb., May, August and Nov. of 
each year. The ’Society’s receipts for 1893 were 
about ^2,000, and disbursements ^1,300. The re¬ 
ceipts for the first nine months of 1894 were ^1800, 
and disbursements ^2300. Its support is from dues, 
donations and the proceeds of an annual banquet. 

Neither sectarianism nor politics is allowed as a 
test of membership, nor as subjects of discussion at 
the meetings of the Society; no solicitors are em¬ 
ployed; no property is owned; its deposits are 
invested in government bonds. 

John J. Badenoch, President. 

John F. Holmes, Secretary. 

Duncan Cameron, Treasurer. 

Wm. Inglis, Chairman Board of Managers. 

152 


ST. GEORGE’S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIA¬ 
TION. 

510 Masonic Temple. 

“The objects of this Association, through its 
members, shall be: To give advice to English im¬ 
migrants; to provide for the social intercourse and 
mutual improvement of its members; to visit the 
sick, bury the dead, assist the widows and orphans 
of deceased members, and, at its discretion, to grant 
relief to any person of English parentage, not mem¬ 
bers of this Association; provided always, that all 
applicants for relief shall be of good moral charac¬ 
ter. The members of this Association shall consist 
of Englishmen, and the sons of Englishmen.” 

The association contains a membership of about 
250 persons, paying a fee of each. Meetings are 
held on the first Monday of each month at the Grand 
Pacific Hotel. 

Last year’s disbursements for relief were $142.16, 
besides the special appropriations spent to aid in 
returning English people home. Employment was 
often secured. No salary is paid to any officer of 
the Association, and no solicitors are employed. 
The Association has $5,000 invested in funds and 
property, the revenues of which, with contributions 
of its members, constitute its relief fund. A valua¬ 
ble lot is owned in Rose Hill Cemetery, where Eng¬ 
lishmen dying destitute are buried. 

W. B. Jackson, President. 

W. L. Tapson, Treasurer. 

C. J. Burroughs, Secretary. 

Rev. Joseph Rushton, Chairman Relieving Com¬ 
mittee. 


153 


SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. 
(SWEITZERISCHE WOHLTiETIGKEITS 
GESELLSCHAFT.) 

49 LaSalle St., Office of German Society. 

Object: “To assist (exclusively) indigent Swiss 

people, either immigrants, or those born here, but 
of Swiss descent, with pecuniary relief, or hospital 
care and otherwise. ’’ 

During 1891, 122 persons and 5 families were 
aided financially, 61 persons were given meal and 
lodging tickets, 6 families received coal, and others 
shoes, railroad tickets, and loans in some cases. 
To secure the needed care for the sick, an annual 
appropriation of $75 is made to the Alexian Brothers’ 
Hospital. The “German Society’’ investigates the 
applicants of the Swiss Society when desired. 

Receipts for 1891, ^1,305; disbursements, $787. 
No solicitor is employed. The support is from 
yearly subsidies from the different cantons of the 
Swiss Confederation—averaging ^100 a year—and 
from voluntary donations from the members of the 
Society, ranging from $3 to $20 yearly. The prop¬ 
erty owned by the Society consists of two lots, par¬ 
tially improved. There are no endowments or re¬ 
ligious affiliations. 

C. Birchmeir, 22 Carl St., President. 

C. E. Zimmerman, Secretary. 

Jos. H. Hepp, Treasurer. 

154 


GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 

Headquarters, Room 37, 80 Washington St. 

There are forty G. A. R. Posts in Cook County. 
They all do more or less relief work, but are pa¬ 
triotic rather than charitable organizations. 

The total disbursements in relief throughout the 
State was ^10,489.25, through the various treasurers, 
and about $10,000 additionally otherwise. There 
are 623 Posts. No solicitors are employed. There 
are in Chicago no organizations doing relief work, 
in good faith, for needy soldiers or their widows and 
orphans other than the G. A. R. Posts, the Wom¬ 
an’s Relief Corps, ladies of the G. A. R., the Sol¬ 
diers’ Home, and the Illinois Woman’s Soldiers’ 
Home. 

All soliciting of funds for old soldiers is forbid¬ 
den by and forfeits membership in the G. A. R. and 
public confidence. 

WOMAN’S RELIEF CORPS, 

Auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic. 

Room 412, 70 State St. 

Objects. 

“1. To specially aid and assist the Grand Army 
of the Republic and to perpetuate the memory of 
their heroic dead. 

“2. To assist such Union veterans as need our 
help and protection, and to extend needful aid to 
their widows and orphans. To find them homes 
and employment, and assure them of sympathy and 
friends. To cherish and emulate the deeds of our 

155 


156 WOMAN^S RELIEF CORES 

army nurses, and of all loyal women who rendered 
loving service to our country in her hour of peril 
“3. To maintain true allegiance to the United 
States of America; to inculcate lessons of patriotism 
and love of country among our children and in the 
communities in which we live; and encourage the 
spread of universal liberty and equal rights to all. ” 
Woman’s Relief Corps are composed of mothers, 
wives,daughters and sisters of Union soldiers,sailors 
and marines who aided in putting down the Rebel¬ 
lion, with other loyal women. 

The order was organized as a national body at 
Denver, Colorado, in 1883, with E. Florence Barker 
of Mass, as its first President, with a membership 
of less than fifty. Since that time there have been 
organized thirty-three departments with fifty-five de¬ 
tached corps, making a total membership of 139,981, 
all working for the Union veteran and his dependent 
ones. One of the most important features of the 
work of the order is the interest manifested in the 
care of the Army Nurses, for whom a National 
Home is provided and established at Madison, Ohio, 
supported by the Woman’s Relief Corps of the U. S. 
The National W. R. C. since its organization has 
expended in relief ^1,018,560.25 of which during 
the last year $170,584.26 was given in assisting 
24,742 dependent persons. The Department of Illi¬ 
nois alone during the period beginning March 18, 
1893, and extending to May 9, 1894, expended $13,- 
596.20 in relief, exhibiting the growing interest 
among patriotic women in this work whether they 
are relatives of the Union soldiers or not. Twenty- 


woman’s relief corps 


157 


five new Corps were organized in Illinois during the 
last year, and applications for several more are now 
pending. The officers of the Department of Illinois 
are as follows: 

Emma R. Wallace, Department President. 

Jennie Bross, Department Secretary. 

Mary E. McCauley, Olney, Ill., Treasurer. 

Woman’s Relief Corps of Chicago. 

14—John Brown.State and 28th.Mrs. Fannie Brown. 

78—Gen. Silas Casey.Archer and Western.Mrs. Louisa Smith. 

81—Gen. G. Weitzel.... 785 W. Madison. Mrs. E. E. Bent. 

85—Barrington.Barrington .Mrs. Lucy Townsend. 

92—Farragut.Congress and Honore ...Mrs. M. H. Weston. 

108—Abraham Lincoln .. .3120 Forest.Mrs. Kate Smith. 

136—G. G. Meade.528 63rd.Mrs. L. L. Allen. 

141—J. A. Mulligan.85 S. Sangamon.Mrs. Cora Antisdale. 

143—Blue Island.Blue Island.Mis. L. H. Lohr. 

150—Gen. L. Blenker.3954 State.Mrs. J. Sullivan. 

161—A. E. Burnside .South Chicago.Mrs. Emma Otto. 

175— Columbia.Masonic Temple.Mrs. E. A. Morse. 

176— Whittier.85 E. Madison.. Mrs. M. K. Elliot. 

181—Gen. E. Hatch.43rd and Emerald.Mrs. M. A. Connell. 

191— Dom. Welter.2505 S. Halsted.Mrs. Julia Wieland. 

194—Win. Scott.1052 Milwaukee.Mrs. Emma Welch. 

192— Gen. Dan Dustin..... Masonic Temple.Mrs. A. S. Smith. 

230—L. H. Drury. Grand Crossing.Mrs. M. E. Everett. 

240—B. P. Butler.Irving Park .Mrs. Addie Balkcom. 

247—Chicago Heights.Chicago Heights.Mrs. Lucy Goff. 

249—H. B. Dodwofth.Armitage & Mil’kee Avs.Mrs. Lettie Coffinberry 

257—Wilcox.Washington Heights.Mrs. A. M. Elmendorf. 


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LADIES OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE 
REPUBLIC. 

G. A. R. Hall. 


Object: "To unite with loyalty to our country a 

sisterly love and affection for each other, parallel 
with the comradeship among the G. A. R.; to hon¬ 
or the memory of our fallen heroes; to perpetuate 
and keep sacred Memorial Day; to assist the Grand 
Army in its mission, and encourage and sympathize 
with them in their work; to aid sick soldiers and 
sailors and their families; to do all in their power 
to alleviate suffering; to look after the Soldiers’ 
Homes and Soldiers’ Orphans’ Homes, and see that 
children who leave the Homes are provided with 
proper situations; to watch the public schools and 
see that the children and youths obtain proper edu¬ 
cation in the true history of the country, and in the 
principles of loyalty and patriotism.” 

The organization, which is national, is composed 
exclusively of the mothers, wives, sisters, and daugh¬ 
ters of the Union soldiers. 

The support is from dues, initiation fees, and vol¬ 
untary contributions. There are no endowments, 
paid solicitors, or religious affiliations. 

The following is their report of their special relief 
work from Dec. 14th to March 5th, 1894 (not in¬ 
cluding their general work constantly being carried 
on). 


LADIES OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC 1 59 


Amount of money received from Dept. 

Commander, comrades and friends.. $ 99,16 


Cash and provisions from Comrade Z. R. 

Winslow. 1,123.27 

Bread given by Siegel & Cooper, D. F. 

Bremner, Halbe Bakery Co. 6,332.75 


Total ^7.555-18 


Expended $7,525.20. Number of meals given, 
121,798. 

Mrs. Z. R. Winslow, Department President, L. 
of G. A. R. 

Mrs. Nettie E. Gunloch, President Relief Com¬ 
mittee. 

Mrs. a. E. Howe, Secretary. 

ILLINOIS SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ HOME. 

Quincy, Adams County, Ill. 

Object: “To provide a home and subsistence for 
honorably-discharged ex-soldiers and ex-sailors who 
enlisted from Illinois, in the army or navy of the 
United States during the rebellion, or the Mexican 
war, or who have since become, and now are resi- 
ients of the State of Illinois, who may have become 
disabled through the exigencies of such service,, or 
who, by reason of old age or other disabilities, are 
disqualified from earning a livelihood, and who, 
under existing rules, are unable to procure admis¬ 
sion to national homes.” 

One half of the current expenses are borne by the 
United States, the other by the State. 

Average number of inmates during 1893-4, 5 ^ 7 * 
Expenditures, $139,707.23. 





SOLDIERS’ HOME IN CHICAGO. 

51 and 53 La Salle Street. 

The Home was incorporated by a special act of 
the General Assembly of Illinois, Feb. 28, 1867. In 
1879 the Home was discontinued. The corporation 
devotes, since that date, the income of its invest¬ 
ments towards relieving honorably discharged and 
indigent Illinois soldiers and their widows and 
children. The relief is in the form of money, from 
one to ten dollars monthly, or meals, or lodging, or 
transportation. 

An average of about 60 persons are aided monthly. 

The total expended for relief was: in 1885, $4,076; 
in ’ 86 , $3,779; in’87, $4,043; in’88, $3,244; in ’89, 
$2,667; in ’90, $3,251; in ’93,$6,200.10, in 1,182 ap¬ 
propriations. The receipts are from rents and interest 
on investments. The total net assets are $103,040.50. 
No solicitors are employed and no salaries paid to 
any one. Disbursements to applicants are made at 
the general office of the Chicago Relief, and Aid So¬ 
ciety every first Saturday of the month. The cor¬ 
poration is without religious affiliations. 

Hon. Thos. B. Bryan, President. 

160 


ILLINOIS MASONIC ORPHAN’S HOME. 

447 Carroll Avenue. 

Object: "To provide and maintain, at or near 
the city of Chicago, a Home for the nurture, and 
intellectual, moral and physical culture, of indigent 
children of deceased Freemasons of the State of 
Illinois; and a temporary shelter and asylum for 
sick or indigent widows of such deceased Freema¬ 
sons." 

The gth annual report gives the number of in¬ 
mates, Jan. 31, 1894, as being 40, both boys and 
girls, ranging from 4 to 16 years of age; 16 were 
added and six dismissed, and 3 died during 1893 
Receipts were $21,548.57; disbursements, $8,433; 
from board, $1,465; from membership fees, $720; 
from annual charity ball, $6,354; third annual 

picnic, $2,899; from lodges, $2,200. There was a 
balance on hand of $10,454, and no debt on the 
Home, which is valued at $45,000. There are no 
endowments, no solicitors, and no religious affilia¬ 
tions; the entire control is vested in Freemasons by 
the articles of organization. 

As the capacity of the Home was overtaxed, there 
is an addition built at a cost of $20,000. It 

is 45 by 105, three stories and basement. October 
ist, 1894, there were 50 children in the Home; all 
but five were attending the public schools. In June 
one graduated from the grammar school to become 
a clerk in one of Chicago's banks. 

John J. Badenoch, President. 

Ludwig Wolff, Vice-President. 

Wiley M. Egan, Treasurer. 

George W. Warvelle, Counsel. 

Chester S. Gurney, Secretary. 

161 


CHURCH CHARITIES. 


In this division of the book are reported the Char¬ 
ities which are in some way affiliated with religious 
orders or bodies. In sonie cases,as for instance with 
the St. Mary’s Industrial School at Feehanville, the 
Archbishop is president ex-officio, in others the 
management is confined by a provision in the Con¬ 
stitution wholly or in part to the one or other of 
the religious sects, and in still others the organiza¬ 
tion stands committed to certain religious forms or 
doctrines. 

Considerable efforts were made to glean the neces¬ 
sary data for a proper presentation of the benevo¬ 
lent activities of the Churches; but the returns have 
not been sufficiently general to warrant their publi¬ 
cation except along certain lines, such as Hospitals, 
Day Nurseries and Kindergartens. No mention is 
made of Sewing or Industrial Schools, Ladies’ Aid 
Societies, Sewing Circles, Charitable Unions, Guilds, 
Clubs, Mothers’ Meetings, Girls’ Friendly Societies, 
Ministerial Relief Associations, funds for relief in 
the pastor’s hands, funds for retired clergymen, 
and for ministers’ widows and orphans, etc. 


CHURCH CHARITIES 


163 


YOUNG WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA 
TION. 

Boarding- Home, 291 Michigan Ave. 

Transient Home, 57 Center Ave. 

Employment Bureau, 291 Michigan Ave. 

Traveler’s Aid Department. 

Objects: “To promote the moral, religious, in¬ 
tellectual and temporal welfare of women, especially 
women who are dependent upon their own exertions 
for support—a part of this work to consist in organ¬ 
izing homes and securing employment for self-sup¬ 
porting girls, and those endeavoring to become such, 
and furnishing medical aid through a well-regulated 
dispensary. ” 

“The work is vested in a board of 150 members 
from the different Protestant churches of Chicago. 
There are several committees for the more effectual 
carrying out of the work: religious, hospital, em¬ 
ployment, visitation of sick, boarding homes, library, 
traveler’s aid, extension of the work, entertainments, 
educational, building, finance, etc.” 

The Association has two boarding homes—Y. 
W. C. A. Home, accommodating during 1893, 182, 


164 YOUNG WOMEN^S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 

Transient Home, 375, 

These Homes daily accommodate from 
75 to 100 girls. The limit of time is one year. This is 
pursuant of the policy of the Association in order 
that a greater number may have the protection of the 
Homes until they have become acquainted with the 
city. The number of admissions, 1893, were : perma¬ 
nent boarders, 405; transients, 1661. 

The Employment Bureau, No. 243 Wabash Ave¬ 
nue, furnishes positions for women. The number 
of situations secured last year was 1557, but aid in 
other ways was given to many more. The number of 
applications was 4641. 

Traveler’s Aid Department.—This work is the 
daily visitation by six women of the depots, and aid¬ 
ing in any way needy incoming strangers. Money 
and transportation is often furnished, and those 
who need the protection of the Transient Home are 
taken there. Cards for direction are posted conspic¬ 
uously at the depots. 

The following extract is from the Association’s 
last report: 

"We placed six women visitors at our different de¬ 
pots, who met, in person, the incoming through 
trains likely to bring the classes we wish to serve. 
In this way we have gotten hold of large numbers 
of girls before sinfully disposed persons could do 
so, for it is in the hurry and confusion of first step¬ 
ping from the trains that they are most easily influ¬ 
enced. Our workers, with blue badge upon their 
breast, stand within or just outside the gates while 
the train unloads, their instructions always in mind, 


YOUNG women’s CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 165 

"Look for girls alone or in suspicious company." 
They politely address the strangers, and offer aid in 
any possible way. They acquire wisdom and dis¬ 
crimination, tact and quickness of action. They 
are ready to help any woman who needs help, 
often finding friends, preventing extortion from cab- 
drivers, etc., placing on right cars, obtaining assist¬ 
ance when money has been lost or stolen, taking to 
friends who have failed to meet them, procuring 
care in case of illness, etc. 

Number aided in various ways, 4,500; number 
sent or taken to the Homes for board or temporary 
charity (young women especially needing such care), 
855; number accompanied to addresses, or to friends 
who failed to meet them (young and ignorant girls, 
who might otherwise have suffered), 371; girls res¬ 
cued directly from the hands of evil persons, 17; 
obtained transportation (in whole or in part ), 93. 

Transient Home.—Number received in the Home, 
May to January, 700. 

The receipts of the Y. W. C. A. for 1891 were 
;^I4,396, ^5,633 being from donations. The expend¬ 
itures were $9,580, the balance going into the 
building fund. 

The support is from board and donations, there 
being no endowments. There are no paid solicitors. 

Mrs. Leander Stone, President. 

Mrs. a. S. Chamberlin, Secretary. 

Mrs. M. E. True, Treasurer. 


GERMAN-AMERICAN HOSPITAL. 

30-32 Belden Court (Place). 

Free Dispensary, 34 Belden Court. 

Bethesda Nurses Training School and Home, 
28-30 Belden Court. 

Bethesda Industrial House, Morton Grove, Cook 
County, Illinois. 

Objects: ‘‘To give medical and surgical aid to 
the poor, free of charge and to others at a nominal 
price; to train nurses; to provide a home and work to 
the homeless and unemployed, especially cripples and 
invalids. 

The hospital accommodates 50 patients; the training 
school and home contain 18 nurses, 45 having already 
graduated ; the industrial home accommodates' 25 
persons and aims to be self-supporting. It operates 
a printing office and a small farm. The association 
is supported by voluntary contribution. The receipts 
and disbursements in 1896 were $5,000. The re¬ 
ligious affiliations are Protestant. 

Trustees: Frank F. Henning, President; H. 

Jacobs, Vice-President; H. A. Dreiske, Secretary. 
Charter Members: JohnKcenig, D. Bakenhus, J. M. 
Hitchcock, R. Ceder. Surgeon in Chief: Prof. C. 
Fenger. Surgeon: Dr. H. J. Haiselden. Medical 
Staff: Dr. John Fisher; Dr. W. C. Abbott, Dr. Fr. 
B. Gottschalk, Junior. Nose and Throat: Dr. 
Wm. H. Weaver. Eye and Ear: Dr. Albert H. 
Andrews. Dentist: Dr. F. A. Paine. Superin¬ 
tendent of Nurses: Miss M. Wieland. 

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GERMAN-AMERICAN HOSPITAL. 

































































WAIFS’ MISSION AND TRAINING SCHOOL. 

i86 Washington Street. Telephone 4910 Main. 


Objects: 

The training of 
neglected and va¬ 
grant children to 
habits of industry 
by trade teaching 
and instructive oc- 

DINING ROOM. CUpationS. DORMITORY. 

Runaway and needy boys are also sheltered until 
employment or homes are found for them, or until 
their parents are communicated with. 

Day and Night Ragged School. 

— Three sessions daily are held at 
the Mission every week-day, except 
Saturday. The teachers are supplied 
by the Board of Education. The 
average attendance is about 30. 
Average in the Home, 80 boys. 

SCHOOL ROOM 

A Waifs’ Sunday School is held 
at Cavalry Armory, on Michigan 
Ave. near Madison St. Lunch is 
furnished children and clothing dis¬ 
tributed. Average attendance 536. 

The work is undenominational. 

On Thanksgiving, Christmas, New 
Year’s and Easter the Mission pro¬ 
vides suitable entertainments and business office. 
dinners to about 1,000 children; on the last Thurs- 
da}^ in June a picnic is given by the Mayor’s proc 
lamation, affording “a good time” to some 10,000 
poor children. 

A laundry also affords employ¬ 
ment for a number of the boys. 

The receipts for 1893 amounted 
to $21,832, of which $5,225 was 
donated and $16,607 was earned 
BLACKSMITH SHOP, by the industrial departments, 

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Summary of the Mission’s report 
for 1893: Free meals given, 96,403; 
free baths given, 11,319; free gar¬ 
ments given, 18,328; visits to sick, 
1,063; police court cases, 707; boys 
admitted to Home, 564; relig¬ 
ious services held, 365; employ¬ 
ment and homes found, 371; free 
lodgings, 22,462. 





The Training 
School. 

The American 
Youth is a weekly 
paper published by 
the Waifs’ Mission. 

A number of boys 
EXPRESS OFFICE, are given employ¬ 
ment in setting the type for it,print¬ 
ing it, etc. There is also a thor¬ 
oughly equipped printing plant for 
general job printing. 

A pony express, for delivering 
parcels, is a Mission enterprise 
giving employment to the boys on 
its wagons and in the barn. A mes- 


LAUNDRY. 



senger service is operated by the 
boys. A blacksmith and wagon¬ 
making shop is also in operation, 
where boys are instructed in those 
trades. 














THE MARY A. AHRENS MISSION. 

1324 Indiana Ave. 

Its object: To give immediate aid and furnish a 
home for unemployed girls and women. Immediate 
relief given to women and children. 

This Mission is a department of the “Chicago Im¬ 
mediate Aid Society,” which was incorporated the 
third day of August, 1890, and had for its object 
immediate relief and aid for indigent and suffering 
people. 

December the nth, Mary A. Ahrens, President of 
the Immediate Aid Society, opened the first Relief 
Station in Chicago, which was located at 346 and 348 
Wabash Ave., and in the period of five weeks and 
three days served 44,000 meals to men and boys, 
and furnished lodgings to over 25,000 persons. 
She also, furnishing the necessary articles for 
cleaning the streets, set the men at work 
and was instrumental in furnishing a number 
of men with employment, and assisted others 
in returning to their homes, located in other 
states. 

During this period of relief work, the use of the 
premises, 48 Peck Court, was donated to Mary A. 
Ahrens, as a lodging house for homeless men; but 
recognizing the necessity there was for giving relief 
and aid to women and children, she had the house 
put in order, and by the help of friends, it was fur¬ 
nished in a comfortable manner, and opened as a 
Mission, January 8, 1894. The maintenance of 
this Mission is dependent wholly for its existence 
upon voluntary contributions. 

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Mr. T. H. Cooper (Siegel, Cooper & Co.) donated Aprils, 1894, 
to Mary A. Ahrens, the Home at 1324 Indiana Ave., a house stand¬ 
ing on ground owned by The Garret Biblical Institute, for which 
the Mission pays an annual rental of $240. 

“The Mary A. Ahrens Mission” is without sectarian affiliation, 
and gives aid and relief to all who apply, regardless of creed or 
nationality; and receives poor convalescent women, discharged 
from hospitals; providing for them until they are able to work. 
There is but one paid position, a solicitor and agent combined. 

The officers of this Society, as required by the charter of “The 
Immediate Aid Society,” are three in number: 

Mary H. Ahrens, President, L. L. B. 

Jennie E. Scott, Secretary. 

Katherine V. Grinnell, Treasurer. 

ADVISORY BOARD. 

Mary F. Fellows, Mrs. C.F. Kimball, EmmaC. Parsons, B.S., 
Visitor, Mrs. A. R. Young, Martha C. Swarthout, Mrs. Ch, 
F. Bassett. 

House Physicians: S. S. Bishop, M. D., Odelia Blinn, M. D, 
















































CHICAGO BAPTIST HOSPITAL. 


Rhodes Avenue and 34th Street. 
Telephone S. 1187. 


Training School for Nurses. 


Object: To conduct a charitable hospital for the 
medical and surgical care of the sick. It was opened 
in 1891 and established upon its present site, which 
it owns, in 1896. Its patients are free to have the 
care of physicians of either Alopathic, Homeopathic 
or Eclectic schools of practice, the staff being com¬ 
posed of four of each. The hospital is completely fitted 
with all modern appliances. At present it has a ca¬ 
pacity for 100 patients. 


Number patients entered. 313 

“ “ cured.215 

“ “ improved. 74 

“ “ unchanged ... 10 

Died. 14 


Free hospital attendance. $ 581.35 
Free med. and surg. work 9,210.00 

Receipts for7 months_ 21,062.26 

Disbursements for 7 mos. 20,203,41 
Endowm’t (Mrs. A. Foster) 35,000.00 


There is a ward set apart for women and an¬ 
other for the students of the Chicago Uni¬ 
versity which is partly supported by the Divin¬ 
ity School. A number of rooms have been 
furnished by the Baptist Churches and Conference of 
Chicago, the affiliations of the hospital being Bap¬ 
tist, though no distinction is made on account of 
creed, race or sex either in the admission of patients 
or nurses. 

In connection with the hospital is a training school 
for nurses. The course covers two years, afterwhich 
the students are entitled to the degree of master 
nurse, a degree which this institution alone has the 
chartered authority to confer. There are thirty 
nurses in attendance. 


Rev. R. H. Austin, President. 

Rev. L. a. Crandall, Vice President. 

Rev. J. P. Thoms, Secretary. 

J. Chas. Moore, Treasurer. 

Dr. a. C. Cowperthwaite, Superintendent. 

Dr. Linnie M. Ousley, Resident Superintendent. 
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CATHOLIC CHURCH CHARITIES. 

Alexian Brother’s Hospital. 

559-569 N. Market St. 

The Order of the Cellite or Alexian Brothers, 
founded in the fourteenth century, conducts the hos¬ 
pital which is for men only, though at the dispensary, 
both men and women are treated, the poor always 
free of charge, irrespective of creed, color or 
nationality. There is also a training school for male 
nurses. 

The Brothers, of whom there are about 40, and 
who have taken a vow of poverty, devote their whole 
time to the care of the sick, and the needs of the 
hospital, a few soliciting support, none receiving 
salaries, which enables them to increase thtir charity 
work. During 1895, 2,053 patients were treated, 
1,198 pay, 855 charity. The receipts were, from 
donations, ^12,415; from board of patients, $25,135. 
Total, $37,550. The disbursements were, $33,252. 
The balance goes to the enlarging of the work in the 
new building, Belden and Racine Avenues, almost 
completed, and having all modern electrical and 
other improvements. 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 

Bro. Aloysius Schyns, President; Bro. Hubert Cremer, Sec¬ 
retary; Bro. Ignatius Minkenberg, Vice-President; Bro. Ber¬ 
nard Kleppel, Treasurer; Br. Philip Kainer, Rector. 

Chicago Industrial School for Girls. 

49th Street and Indiana Ave. 

Objects: “To provide a home and proper train¬ 

ing school for such girls as may be committed to its 
charge, and to train and educate them so as to be¬ 
come good and useful women. ” 

In 1894 there were 160 dependent and some board¬ 
ing children. Fifteen sisters were in charge. The 
County Commissioners make annual appropriations 
of some ^10,000. 

Geo. W. Smith, President. 

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CATHOLIC CHARITIES 


HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD 

N. W. Cor. Market and Hill Sts. 

Objects: The reclamation and reformation of fallen 
women, and protection of children. 

During the year 1893 there were 486 women and 
girls in the institution. Of that number 147 
returned to friends, 63 were placed in service with 
families and 8 died. The institution is supported 
by the labor of the inmates, consisting of laundry 
and needlework, by voluntary contributions, and by 
a portion of the city fines, which in 1893 amounted 
to ^1920.07. Total receipts ^37,284.95. Disburse- 
$37,034.48. It owns its property, covering the 
block enclosed by Market, Sedgwick, Elm and Hill 
Sts. The control is vested in the Catholic Church 
but abandoned women and destitute children are 
received regardless of creed, race or nationality. 

Mother Mary of the Cross, President. 

Sister Annunciation, Treasurer. 

Guardian Angel Orphan Asylum. 

High Ridge, Cook County, Illinois. 

During 1891 the Asylum took in 85 and dis¬ 
charged 54 children—309 were cared for altogether. 
At the close of the year there were 255 children in 
the Asylum. Seventy infants were cared for, 202 of 
school age and 37 above, 14 years of age, one a 
cripple and one an imbecile. In September, 1894, 
there were 16 sisters in charge, and 210 orphans in 
attendance. 


CATHOLIC CHARITIES 


175 


The older boys, through labor on the farm, raised 
in i8gi, 3,000 bushels of potatoes, 115,000 heads of 
cabbage, 50 tons of hay, etc.; the girls aided in 
cooking, baking, laundrying, sewing, knitting, etc. 

The receipts from the farm were ^1,998; from do¬ 
nations, $683; total, ^3,015. Disbursements, ^2,- 
970. For 262 orphans, 26 German Catholic churches 
paid board to the amount of ^3,001. The religious 
affiliations are Catholic—the German congregations 
of the archdiocese of Chicago. 

Ferd. Kalvelage, President. 

A. Wolf, Treasurer. 

Ven. Sister M. Bartholomae, Superintendent. 

Holy Family Orphan Asylum (Polish and Bo¬ 
hemian). 

Cor. Holt and Division Sts. 

The Orphanage is in charge of the Sisters of 
Notre Dame. There were 190 orphans in 1894. 
Sister Hugolina, Superior. 

Home for Working Boys, and Mission of Our 
Lady of Mercy. 

363 W. Jackson St. 

The attendance is about 75 boys on. an average. 
D. S. Mahoney, Director. 

Industrial School for Girls (Polish). 

130 W. Division St. 

The attendance in 1894 was 80 children in charge 
of four Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. 
Sister M. Lauretta, Superior. 


176 


CATHOLIC CHARITIES 


“Little Sisters of the Poor.” 

Three Homes are conducted by “Little Sisters of 
the Poor” for aged poor. They are maintained by 
charity, the sisters going out and collecting funds 
and assistance in the form of clothing, food,etc. 

North-Side Home for Aged Poor, Cor. Sheffield 
and Fullerton Aves., cared for 175 aged persons dur* 
ing 1891; an average of 140. Twelve Sisters are in 
charge. 

South-Side Home for Aged Poor, Cor. 51st 
Street and Prairie Ave., cared for 60 aged persons 
during i8gi; an average of 50. 

West-Side Home for Aged Poor, Cor. Harrison 
and Throop Sts., cared for 130 aged persons Sep¬ 
tember, 1894; an average of 132. Twelve Sisters 
are in charge. 

The inmates are received for their lifetime. 

No financial statement is made in the reports. 

The North-Side and West-Side Homes are owned, 
the South-Side has rented accommodations. Each 
Home is in charge of a “Mother Superior.” 

Mercy Hospital. 

Twenty-sixth St. and Calumet Ave. 

Object: “To care for the sick." 

It is conducted by the “Sisters of Mercy.” The 
number of patients admitted during 1891 is 1,700— 
free of charge, 550; fixed pay and part pay, 1,150. 
Receipts for 1891 were $48,392; • disbursements, 
$48,392. The institution is self-supporting from 
charge patients. It is affiliated with the Catholic 


CATHOLIC CHARITIES 


177 


Church. There are 37 Sisters of Mercy in charge, 
and about 200 patients in 1894. 

Mother Raphael, Superior. 

House of Mercy. 

A home for distressed women of good character 
adjoins the hospital. There were about 75 inmates 
in 1894. 

Sister M. Angelica, Superior 

St. Joseph’s Home 

409 S. May St. 

Home for Working Girls. 

Object: “Principally to give help and protection 

to respectable young working girls.” 

The average number in the Home is 200; 400 
transients were received during last year, and helped 
in various ways. The work is a private benevo¬ 
lence, and self-supporting by means of laundrying, 
dress-making, etc. No financial report is made 
public. 

The Industrial School is in charge of the ladies 
of the Sacred Heart. The attendance is forty. 

The School for Deaf Mutes aims to care for and 
train deaf mutes. It was opened in 1894 and has 
120 pupils, 80 boarding in the institution, a sepa¬ 
rate building,but on the grounds. It is maintained 
in part by the bequest of the late Peter Schoenhoffen 
and voluntary contributions. 

The Home for the Friendless receives and cares 
for temporarily homeless women and girls. 

Miss E. Caughlan, Superior. 


178 


CATHOUC CHARITIES 


St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum. 

(Incorporated 1872). 

Cor. 35th St. and Lake Ave. 

Object: “To protect, support, and educate in¬ 
digent children in the city of Chicago.” 

During the past twenty-seven years it has shel¬ 
tered and educated several thousand children. In 
1894 there were 250 girls. It is conducted by ii 
Sisters of the Congregation of St. Joseph, who have 
their mother-house in South St. Louis, Mo. It is 
under the charge of different English-speaking 
Catholic churches of the city, all of which contrib¬ 
ute to its support, while Archbishop Feehan gives 
it his especial attention. The enrollment, Septem¬ 
ber, 1894, was 309. Board is charged when the par¬ 
ents or guardian is able to pay. The girls are given 
a share in the housework. Receipts during 1891, 
$10,106; disbursements, the same. It has no en¬ 
dowments, owns durable brick buildings, and spa¬ 
cious grounds. 

M. Matilda, Superintendent. 

St. Joseph’s Hospital. 

360 Garfield Ave. 

Object: “The care and treatment of the sick.” 

There were 80 patients September, 1894. The 
average number of patients during 1891 was 70; en¬ 
larged present capacity, 250. The report estimates 
that two-thirds are pay, and one-third charity pa 
tients. The former class is the main support of the 
institution. It was founded in 1871, is conducted 
by the “Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph,” and i§ 


CATHOLIC CHARITIES 


179 


Catholic in its affiliations. It owns its buildings, 
the additions and improvements of 1890 costing 
$130,000, which was covered in part by a $10,000 
legacy from Conrad Seipp. 

“Sister M. Elizabeth,” Superintendent. 

St. Joseph’s Providence Orphan Asylum. 

Crawford Ave., near Belmont Ave. 

Object: “To shelter and instruct in the branches 

of a common-school education homeless boys under 
twelve years of age.” 

There are four teachers. The report is as follows: 
Number of boys in the Home, 200; number received 
during last year, 100; number for whom homes were 
provided, 72; average annual receipts, $6,859. Dis¬ 
bursements last year, $6,859. The property owned 
is a large four-story brick building and several acres 
of land, the title and control being vested in the 
Sisters of St. Joseph, a Catholic order. 

Sister Dominica, Superior. 

St. Peter’s Catholic Day Nursery and Kinder¬ 
garten. 

.451 S. Clark St. 

This combined Day Nursery and Kindergarten 
was established by the St. Peter’s (R. Catholic) 
Church. The average attendance is abOut 30. There 
are also some ten half-orphans boarding there, and 
these, with the tuition charged, are the principal 
support of the work. 

Receipts and disbursements for 1893-4 were 
$1,500. 


l8o CATHOLIC CHARITIES 

St. Mary’s Training School for Boys. 

Feehanville, Ill. On the Wis. Central R. R. 

Object: "To care for and teach some useful em¬ 

ployment to indigent and wayward boys.” 

In September, 1894, there were 400 pupils and 
16 "Christian Brothers” in charge. Cook County 
Commissioners appropriate approximately $12,000 
annually for 100 boys, or $120 per capita. The ex¬ 
penditures for 1893 were $26,552, the per capita cost 
being a little over $60.00. The average number of 
boys are 400. The school is in large part self-sus¬ 
taining. 

The receipts from private boarders were in 1891 
$7,805; from donations, $122; from farm produce, 
$4,588; from dairy, milking 46 cows, and from 
poultry, $3,435. The institution owns its farm of 
440 acres through which the Desplaines River flows. 
The site is picturesque. The water is supplied by 
an artesian well. Manual and literary training alter¬ 
nate each half da3L 

Net assets, $80,149. No paid solicitors are em¬ 
ployed. The religious affiliations are Catholic. 

Archbishop P. A. Feehan, President ex-officio. 

Jas. Burke, Acting President. 

Rev. P. J. Muldoon, Secretary and Treasurer. 

"Brother Leo,” Director and Superintendent. 


CATHOLIC CHARITIES 


l8l 


Visitation and Aid Society. 

Room 500 and 501, 34 Washington St., Venitian 
Building. 

Object: “To visit public and private eleemosynary 
institutions and assist temporal^, spiritually and 
educationally the inmates; to place destitute chil¬ 
dren in homes; to obtain employment for deserv¬ 
ing persons, and to engage in other charitable work. ’’ 

The Society in its Fifth Annual Report (1893-4) 
gives the number of visits made to the infirmary 
as 154; number of visitors, 954; number of religious 
services held in institutions, 143; number of books 
distributed, 9,000. It interested itself in 1,505 
children; returned 297 to relatives, and placed in 
Homes and Institutions 602; otherwise improved 
the condition of 608. Employment was obtained 
for 298 persons, transportation for 197; otherwise 
assisted by securing for them nurses, physicians, 
relief, etc., 3,252. Its receipts were $2,107; ex¬ 
penditures, $2,569. Two Jesuit Fathers assist the 
Society in its spiritual work. 

The Society employs a visitor and a clerk; no 
solicitors. One of its agents is paid and detailed 
by the Police Department. The visitor and Police 
agent attend the Police Courts to take charge of 
dependent children and families. The Society owns 
no property; has no endowments;^is supported by 
contributions from members and friends. The So¬ 
ciety affiliates with the Catholic church, its officers 
and visitors being mostly Catholic. 

T. D. Hurley, President. 

P. T. Gillespie, Treasurer. 

Mrs, Thomas F. Quinlan, Secretary. 



St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. 

Cor. Davis and Le Moyne Streets. 

Objects: “The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, 

in whose charge the hospital is, are banded together 
to nurse the sick and poor in private houses and 
hospitals. ” 

There were 800 patients nursed last year; 467 
were discharged recovered, 65 improved, 77 unim¬ 
proved, and loi died—30 having entered in a dying 
state. There were nursed free of charge 271 pa¬ 
tients, 470 paid full rates and 57 partial. 

The average annual receipts are ^32,947.62; dis¬ 
bursements for 1891, ^80,478.54. The support is 
from “soliciting,” Mr. Martin Ryerson’s “charit}' 
trust, ” and pay patients. The assets are the block 
of five acres on which the hospital is located, and 
buildings valued at $2^0,000. The affiliations are 
Catholic. It is in charge of 22 Sisters. 

Sister M. Polycarpa, Sister Superior. 

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CATHOLIC CHARITIES 


183 


St. Vincent’s Infant Asylum. 

191 La Salle Ave. 

Objects: “To care for foundlings and destitute 
children under six years of age; also, to accommo¬ 
date poor mothers with their infants. ” 

A portion of the building is fitted up as a lying- 
in department, which is entirely private. The capac¬ 
ity of the home is 200; average number of children, 
150. In September, 1894, there were 150 infants, 25 
patients. A Kindergarten with 40 boys and 100 
girls, in charge of 2 teachers. The children are dis¬ 
posed of in some cases by being returned to their 
relatives, in others adopted into private families, and 
still others transferred to the Orphan Asylum when 
seven years of age. The annual cost is $12,000; the 
grounds are valued at $25,000; buildings, $75,000; 
furniture, $8,000. The support is from boarders, 
legacies, donations, and proceeds of lectures and en¬ 
tertainments. The benefits of the asylum are extend¬ 
ed to mothers and children of all denominations. 
The religious affiliations are Catholic, it being con¬ 
ducted by the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph. 

Sister M. Julia, Superior. 

St. Francis’ House of Providence. 

Cor. Market and Elm Sts. 

Object: “To furnish a home for ladies with or 
without employment.” 

It is in charge of 16 sisters of the Franciscan 
order. There is here also a Home for unemployed girls. 

Sister M. Emilia, Superior. 


EPISCOPAL CHARITIES. 


St. Luke’s Hospital. 

Dispensary. '426 Indiana Ave. 

Training School. 

Diet School. 

Objects: “To provide for the sick and poor and 
to maintain.a hospital therefor in the city of Chica¬ 
go, Illinois, under the control of the Protestant 
Episcopal church.” 

The following statement shows the work for the 
year ending October i, 1893: 

The number of patients remaining Oct. i, 

1892. 114 

The number of patients admitted during 

year. 1748 

Total. 1862 

Total number discharged: 

Cured, 61 per cent.... 1128 

Improved, 17 per cent. 323 

Unchanged, 6 per cent. 114 

Died, 8 per cent. 152 

Total... 1717 

Remaining October i, 1893, 8 per cent... 145 

DISPENSARY. 

The following v/ere the number of cases treated in 
the Dispensary free of charge to applicant: 

Surgical.. 2141 

M edical ... . ,. ... 1629 

Gynaecological . ... 1209 

Eye and Ear .. 552 

5531 


Total 


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EPISCOPAL CHARITIES 


185 


RESUME. 

Patients treated in the Hospital. 1862 

Patients treated in the Dispensary. 553i 


Total number of patients treated 7393 
The number of free patients admitted was. .. 689 

The number of pay and part pay was. 1059 


Total admitted. 1784 

The number of hospital days devoted to - 

free patients was.^. .. 19,818 

The number of hospital days devoted to 

pay and part pay was.. 24,115 

Total number of hospital days. 43?933 


RECEIPTS. 


Churches. $ 3,041.21 

Support of beds. 9,178.83 

Donations from Individuals 7,147.13 

Board. 26,673.19 

Training School. 1,225.22 

Clinic tickets. 40.00 

Material sold. 40.25 


Charity Ball . 

St. Luke’s Annual. 

Rents: The Clinton, net 

All other rents . 

Diet kitchen fund. 

Total. 


4.944-65 

2,301.87 

15,810.76 

1,109.45 

81.21 


$71,627.79 


Training School for Nurses.—The number in the 
School, as given in the 8th annual report, is 42; 39 
were admitted as probationers during 1893, and 600 
applicants refused. The demands on the school for 
special nurses, both from private individuals and 
hospitals, is increasing, and greatly exceeds the sup¬ 
ply. Receipts from nurses’ earnings, $1,546.46; 
special expenses on account of school, $174,48. The 
lot adjoining the hospital on the north has been 
bought for a Home for the nurses with a legacy of 
$25,000. 

Diet School.—The object is to thoroughly instruct 
the trained nurses in the art and science of cookery. 























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186 

No solicitors are employed. The religious affilia¬ 
tions are with the Protestant Episcopal Church. 

Arthur Ryerson, President. 

Joseph T. Bowen, Vice-President. 

Frederick T. West, Secretary. 

N. K. Fairpank, Treasurer. 

Rev. J. W. Van Ingen, Superintendent. 

St. Mary’s Mission House. 

213-215 Washington Boulevard. 

Objects: “Helping and visiting the sick and 
poor; having Bible classes and mothers’ meetings.” 

The House is connected with the Cathedral SS. 
Peter and Paul (Protestant Episcopal). It is in 
charge of the “Sisters of St. Mary, ” who live on the 
third floor, the other floors being devoted to guilds 
and mothers’ and girls’ meetings. 

A Free Dispensary is conducted in the basement, 
being open for three days a week. 

St. Mary’s Home for Children. 

221 Washington Boulevard. 

This Home was opened Sept. 18, 1894. It is part 
of the Mission and under the charge of the sisters. 
Six children are in the Home. It can accommodate 
15 children. 

A Boys and Girls’ Guild meets twice a week; a 
Sewing Class for Girls on Saturday afternoons. 
Domestic service is also taught to girls. 

The property is owned; no solicitors are em¬ 
ployed; there are no endowments, and no salaries 
are paid. 

Rev. George D. Wright, Minister-in-charge. 

“Sister Frances,” Sister-in-charge. 


EPISCOPAL CHARITIES 


187 


St. James' Church. 

THE ST. JAMES’ DAY NURSERY. 

268 Superior St. 

It reports that it is now entering upon its third 
year and presents an encouraging record of the work 
it is accomplishing among poor women and their 
little children. 

From month to month there has been a steady 
increase in the number of children cared for, and 
the amount of employment supplied to needy moth¬ 
ers. The doors of the Creche are opened each morn¬ 
ing at 6:30, and the matron, with her assistant, re¬ 
ceives the little ones. After a breakfast of warm milk 
and bread, they go to the play-room, where the 
younger children pass a happy day with their play¬ 
fellows and their toys. At 8:30 the older children 
are taken by the nurse to the Moody kindergarten 
—an arrangement having been made with the teach¬ 
ers to receive them during the morning session. 
This provides them with schooling, and greatly 
lightens the cares of the matron. At noon the nurse 
calls for them and brings them home, where a din¬ 
ner of meat, potatoes or rice and bread is served. 
At 5:30 they have a supper of mush and milk, and 
by 7 o’clock they are all once more with their 
mothers. The average daily attendance of children 
"has been nine, making a total number for the year 
of 2,806. The matron has supplied many of the 
mothers with work, this being an important feature 
of the Day Nursery. 


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EPISCOPAL CHARITIES 


Receipts, 1893. 


Balance, Nov. 1892. $ 644.69 

From Mothers. 188.66 

Dues and Subscriptions. 5 ^ 4-75 

Tea Party Sales. 6.00 

Charity Fund. i 5 -oo 

Tableaux. 219.55 


Total Receipts.^1,638.65 

Expenditures.^i> 435 - ^9 


Mrs. Perry H. Smith, President. 

Mrs. T. W. Grover, Treasurer. 

Alice G. Kerfoot, Secretary. 

Convalescents’ Home. 

4333 Ellis Avenue. 

Objects: ‘‘The Home has been incorporated to 
provide a comfortable and inexpensive resting place 
for invalids who are well enough to leave the hos¬ 
pitals, but not yet strong enough to resume life’s 
burdens. ” 

The society pays for these accommodations at 
the rate of ^25 a month, the beneficiary being en¬ 
couraged to return this when able. 

The Protestant Episcopal church has the v/ork in 
charge, but the benefits are not limited as to race, 
creed or nationality. 

The society has the use of a cottage for worki ig 
women and girls, accommodating 20 persons, on a 
lake. 

Rev. Dr. Walter Delafield, President. 

Gen’l Joseph Stockton, Vice-President. 

Chas. M. Flack, Secretary. 

C. R. Larrabee, Treasurer. 

Also a board of lady managers. 












Church Home for Aged Persons. 

4327 Ellis Avenue. 


Object: “To provide a quiet, comfortable home, 
the daily companionship of others in the same 
sphere of life, and kind watchfulness and care for 
such persons as have been accustomed to the refine¬ 
ments of life, but who have outlived their friends, 
lost their means of support, or in other ways become 
dependent. ’’ 


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190 

I. Church Home for Aged Ladies. 

The Home was incorporated Aug. 22, 1890. One 
room has been endowed at a cost of ^5,000 by the 
Church of the Transfiguration; a second by Mrs. 
Ruben Taylor. 

The total receipts for 1893 were ^4,648.22; dis¬ 
bursements, $4,324.22. Net assets, $25,000; liabili¬ 
ties, $4,000. 

II. Church Home for Aged Gentlemen. 

This Home forms a part of the same block of 
buildings with and is adjoining the Orphans’ and the 
Old Ladies’ Homes. It was opened Aug. ist, 1894. 
The property is valued at $25,000, on which there 
is still a debt of $19,000. 

It aims to accommodate aged and destitute 
merchants, clergymen, artists, literary men, etc. The 
cost of endowing a room is $5,000. 

The admission fee for life inmates is $500. Some 
are taken temporarily free of charge, or for board. 
The Home is under the direct supervision of 
the Episcopal church—its board of managers and 
trustees being Episcopalian by the requirements of 
its charter, and subject to the supervision of the 
bishop of the diocese. There are no paid solicitors 
or endowments, the support being mainly from vol¬ 
untary donations. 

Rev. Dr. Walter Delafield, President, 

Chas. W. Brega, Vice-President. 

F. E. Pettit, 208 E. 44th St. Treasurer. 

A. J. Bradford, Secretary. 

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EPISCOPAL CHARITIES 


Church Home for Orphans. 

4331 Ellis Avenue. Incorporated Sept., 1892. 

Objects: "The care of orphan and half-orphan 
children. ’’ 

The Home is owned by the corporation. There 
are no endowments, the support being from volun¬ 
tary contributions. The Protestant Episcopal church 
has charge of the work, but the benefits are not 
limited on account of race, nationality or creed. 

The Home has accommodated 50 children during 
1893. The policy is to care for the children, charg¬ 
ing board when relatives or friends are able to pay, 
but otherwise to place them .out in private homes 
as soon as practicable. 

The receipts for 1893 were $1,621.66; disburse¬ 
ments, $1,601.29. 

Rev. Dr. Walter Delafield, President. 

Col. Gurdon S. Hubbard, Jr., Vice-President. 

Collins H. Jordan, Vice-President. 

Richard H. Wyman, Secretary. 

Ira P. Bowen, Treasurer, Continental National 
Bank. 


LUTHERAN CHARITIES. 

Uhlich’s Evangelical Lutheran Orphan Asylum. 

Burling and Center Streets. 

Object: “The support and education, first, of 
she orphans of the First United Evangelical Luth¬ 
eran Church of Chicago, and of orphans of such 
Evangelical Lutheran Churches of Chicago as the 
corporation may see fit to admit. The board of 
trustees must be members of the above named 
church. ” 

The Asylum sheltered during 1891, as appears from 
its 22nd annual report, 123 children, 43 being ad¬ 
mitted during the year and 31 dismissed. The av¬ 
erage number in the Home was 84, and the cost per 
capita $2 per week. There was no death, excepting 
that of the Superintendent. About 30 of the chil¬ 
dren are entire orphans; for the others, the half¬ 
orphans, board is paid by their parents—from 75 
cents to,^i.5o per week. The receipts were ^12,045; 
disbursements, ^10,741. The Asylum is supported 
mainly from the income of the land (60 lots) be¬ 
queathed by Carl Uhlich in 1869, which it leases. It 
receives but small donations; has no solicitors. 

Wm. Knoke, President. 

C. A. Herrmann, Superintendent. 

John L. Diez, Treasurer. 

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194 


LUTHERAN CHARITIES 


Augustana Hospital. 

Corner Lincoln and Cleveland Avenues, Chicago. 

Objects: “The training of well-qualified nurses, 
the establishment and support of a hospital, the 
care of the aged, the education of the young, and, 
in general, the exercise of mercy among the suffer¬ 
ing. ” (Charter Feb. 14, 1892.) 

The report from Oct. 15, 1893, to Oct. 15, 1894, 
is as follows: 

Patients treated during the year, 522. Total 
number of days of treatment, 11,585. Days paid, 
7,877. Part paid, 2,284. Charity days, 1,424; pay 
patients, 393; part pay, 62; charity, 67; cured, 324; 
improved, 105; unimproved,. 25; died, 31; surgical, 
320; medical, 202. Admitted since opening, 1,732. 

A Training School for nurses was established re¬ 
cently as a department of the work of the Hospital. 

The Hospital has only one room endowed, and 
reports that it is utterly unable to do the. charity 
work which appeals to it. There is an encumbrance 
of $60,000 on the property, which is valued at 
$200,000. 

The Hospital is owned and controlled by the 
Illinois Conference of the Swedish Lutheran Church. 
It is supported by voluntary contributions, and by 
receipts from patients. No solicitors are em¬ 
ployed. 

Dr. a. J. Ochsner, Surgeon-in-chief, 

Rev. M. C. Ranseen, President. 

Rev. C. a. Avald, Secretary. 

Theo. Freeman^ Treasurer, 




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Danish Lutheran Children’s Home. 

69 Perry Street. 

Object: “To support and care for children of 
Danish parentage who are orphans or destitute." 

The Home shelters 33 children; is in charge of 
a matron and two assistants; occupies a three-story 
building, the top floor being devoted to the nursery. 
An adjoining lot is owned and used for play ground. 
It is open to orphans and half orphans of Danish 
parents from all parts of the United States. 

Last year’s receipts and disbursements amounted 
to $2,200. The Home is supported by voluntary 
contributions from members of the Danish Evangel¬ 
ical Lutheran church of U. S. A., in which its con¬ 
trol is vested. 

Mrs. Martha Olsen, Mother. 

Doard of Directors. 

Rev. Theo. Helvig, Mrs. Frederika D. Hansen. 
Mrs. C. W. Hansen, Treasurer, 615 W. Indiana St. 


METHODIST CHARITIES. 

Methodist Children’s Home. 

Lake Bluff, III. 

Object: <<To care for destitute children and to 
find them, when required, permanent homes.” 

The Home accommodates 75 children and is de¬ 
signed as the main building for a group of other 
cottages. There are spacious grounds, with shade 
trees and wide verandas. It is the gift of Mr. and 
Mrs. J. B. Hobbs. 

The home is in charge of the Methodist Deacon¬ 
esses, whose headquarters are at their home, 227 E. 
Ohio Street, Rest cottage occupying same grounds. 

Wesley Hospital. 

Cor. 25th and Dearborn Sts. (Incorporated 1888.) 

Objects: The gratuitous treatment of the medic¬ 

inal and surgical diseases of the sick poor.”— Char¬ 
ter, Sec. 2. 

In its present building, which is owned, there are 
accommodations for 30 patients and the nurses. 

Receipts, 1896: From patients’ board, $9,574; 
from subscriptions, $5,082; total, $22,058. Expend¬ 
itures, $21,832. Number of cases treated, 300; cured, 
214; improved, 35; unimproved, ii; died, 24; remain¬ 
ing at end of year, 16. 

No conditions of race, creed or nationality are 
imposed on its beneficiaries, though the hospital 
affiliates with the Methodist Episcopal Church, a 
provision of its by-laws being that seven-tenths of 
its trustees shall be of that communion, 

W. H. Rand, President. 

M. P. Hatfield, Secretary. 

James S. Harvey, Treasurer? 


METHODIST CHARITIES. 


Chicago Deaconess’ Home. 

227 E. Ohio St. 

Object: "To organize, promote and maintain the 

work of women, banded together to devote their 
whole time and strength to good works, errands of 
love and mercy, without remuneration except to re¬ 
ceive their support at the Home. ’’ 

Ihe aim is to instruct and train for the work 
of visiting among* the poor, and to direct it through 
careful superintendence. The Deaconesses fit them¬ 
selves for the work by an elementary course in med¬ 
icine and nursing when visiting, and when nursing 
Deaconesses, through a full course in a training 
school for nurses. The Home is supported by volun¬ 
tary contributions. No charges are made for services, 
since these are rendered to the destitute. The last 
report shows: Receipts for one year, from Apr. 10, 
’93, to Apr. 10, '94, ^5,000.5(5; disbursements, 
$4,723.74. Receipts for "emergency fund,” $1,610; 
disbursements, $1,519.54. 

Much of the work is spiritual. Among its philan¬ 
thropic features are: Number of sick nursed in 
their homes, 196; number of calls on the sick, 1,528; 
number of days spent in nursing sick in their homes, 
800^—nights,672; number of garments given away, 
17,440; baskets of food, 1,202; bouquets of flowers, 
3,126. The number of Deaconesses living in the 
Home, not including teachers or students or those 
engaged in hospital work, is 18. The society owns 
its building, has no endowments or paid solicitor. 


METHODIST CHARITIES 


199 


Halsted St. Mission. 

778 S. Halsted St., Cor. 20th. 

Industrial Classes. 

Information Bureau. 

Kitchengarten. 

Free Kindergarten. 

These lines of charitable work are conducted in 
and in connection with the Halsted Street Mission 
(M. E.). (Organized in 1866.) The Mission aims 
to be a benevolent center for that part of the city. 
In it the Relief and Aid Society has had one of its 
branch offices for two years. 

The Industrial classes embrace printing,shorthand 
and typewriting, drawing, telegraphy, and needle 
and fancy work. Average attendance, 237. 

The Kitchengarten instructs larger girls in all 
kinds of housework and housekeeping. The aver¬ 
age attendance is 26. 

The Kindergarten is in session five days in the 
week, and has an average attendance of more than 
73 pupils. 

The Information Bureau seeks to supply male help. 
Besides these departments there is a course of free 
lectures given in the winter on social and moral 
questions, also free stereopticon entertainments. 

The Mission is conducted in a building owned by 
the Chicago Home Missionary and Church Exten¬ 
sion Society M the M. E. Church, but encumbered 
^ 12-000. 


THE PASSAVANT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. 

(Formerly the Emergency Hospital.) 

Under the direction of the Institution of Protestant 
Deaconesses. (Chartered.) 

Object: “That the suffering and the sick may be 
cared for and relieved in a becoming and Christian 
manner without distinction of creed, country or 
color.” 

The Rev. W. A. Passavant, D. D., of Pittsburg, 
Pa., widely known for his philanthropic enterprises, 
reported in 1865 to the Institution of Protestant 
Deaconesses the need of a hospital in Chicago espe¬ 
cially for sick needy immigrants. The project was 
formally considered and in July, 1865, a private 
house on North Dearborn street which had been 
purchased was opened as “The Deaconess Hospital.” 
It had fifteen beds. Poverty and struggle attended 
its work for several years until just as a $30,000 
subscription and a valuable building site became 
available, the Great Fire swept everything away. 
The director visited the scene of desolation and sold 
what the fire had left for $8.50. For fourteen years 
its work was interrupted, when through the exertions 
of Dr. Passavant and Ezra B. McCagg, a friend of the 
institution, the present building was erected and 
opened in 1885. 

The Hospital has no endowments and depends en¬ 
tirely upon voluntary contributions and the income 
from the care of private patients to carry on its char- 
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THE PASSAVANT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. 


ity work. It always has room for the worthy poor 
needing hospital treatment, and accident cases are 
received at any time. It has a full staff of surgeons 


and physicians. 

The annual report for 1894 shows: 

Patients remaining Jan. ist, 1893. 19 

Patients admitted during the year. 302 

Total. 321 

The income Feb. ist, 1894, to Feb. ist, 

1895.^13.208 73 

The expenditures during the same period 15,082 12 

Deficit. ^>1,873 39 


Rev. W. a. Passavant, Jr., General Director. 
Eliphalet W. Blatchford, Chairman Board of 
Visitors. 

Ezra B. McCagg, Esq., Secretary and Treasurer. 










ILLINOIS soldiers’ AND SAILORS’ HOME, QUINCY, ILL. See page 159 










































THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF THE 
CITY OF CHICAGO. 

Cor. Congress and Wood Sts. (Chartered April i8, 
1872.) 

Maternity. 

Convalescent Home. 

Throat and Chest Department. 

Objects: “To afford surgical and medical aid and 

nursing to sick and disabled persons of every creed, 
nationality and color.” 

The eleventh annual report, 1893, shows the fob 
lowing: 


Patients remaining March 31, 1893. 201 

Patients admitted during the year . 15834 


Total... 2,035 

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PRESBYTERIAN CHARITIES 


Patients remaining March 31, 1894. 208 

Patients discharged cured. 

Patients discharged improved. 279 

Patients discharged unimproved. 24 

Patients not treated. 63 

Patients died. 99 


Total. 2,035 

Number days of treatment.72,452 

Number of days of attendance. 548 

Per centum of deaths to number treated.. .. 4.8 


Number admitted this year 1893-94, 2,035, 
against 2,131 of last year, whereas there were 72,452 
days of treatment as against previous year of 72,270. 
Of the days of treatment 48,470 were pay and part 
pay, and 23,982 were free. 

The daily average of free patients was sixty-six, 
65 beds being endowed; pay and part pay were 132. 
making total daily average 198. 

The lowest number of patients for any one day 
was 107; the highest 228. Since the opening of the 
Hospital, in August, 1884, it has cared for over 
12,000 patients. 

The treasurer’s report shows the cost of administra¬ 
tion for the year, to be $90,732.14, and expenses for 
interest, insurance, taxes, etc., $5,438.40, making 
a total of $96,190.54. 












PRESBYTERIAN CHARITIES 


205 


Receipts from donations were.. 

Receipts for free beds. 

Receipts from interest on endowment funds 

and other sources. 

Receipts from pay patients. 

Expenditures. 

Wages and nursing. 

Supplies. 

Expenses... 

Repairs. 


$4,340.28 

8,250.00 

9.679-45 

68,677.72 

90,947.45 

34,560.81 

51,547-15 

9 , 479-47 

603.11 


Total.$96,190.54 

The Maternity Department occupies a separate 
building, and is deemed a successful departure. 

The Convalescents'’ Home gives relief by being 
more homelike than any hospital can be made. 

The Throat and Chest Department. This class 
of diseases, it is claimed, are better treated when 
isolated in a building by themselves. 

The support of the Hospital is from endowments, 
amounting to $161,602, donations and receipts from 
patients; no solicitors are employed. The buildings 
are owned. The religious affiliations are Presby¬ 
terian. 

Rev. John L. Withrow, D. D., President 

Ernest A. Hamill, Vice-President. 

George W. Hale, Treasurer. 

W. A. Douglass, Secretary. 

J. A. Robison, M. D., Assistant Secretary. 













Church of the Redeemer. 

2581 Austin Ave. 

Talcott Day Nursery. 

Talcott Kindergarten. 

Sewing School. 

These charities are connected with the Church of 
the Redeemer (Universalist). 

The average daily attendance for 1891 was 44 at 
the Nursery, 40 at the Kindergarten, and 5 at the 
Sewing School. The average annual expenses are 
about ^3,300. All garments the children make are 
donated to them. The teachers of the Sewing School 
are from among the members of the church, 

Mrs. a. E. Clark, President. 

Mrs. Mark Sherwood, Treasurer. 

Unity Church Industrial School. 

80 Elm St. 

Industrial School 

Day Nursery. 

Kindergarten. 

Objects: “To help the very needy of the North 
Side, especially the little girls who wander about the 
streets, begging. ” 

It was opened in 1876 by the members of Unity 
Church, and a few years later, through a bequest of 
$20,000 by Eli Bates to the trustees of Unity 
Church, the ground and buildings were provided, the 
property and management being vested in this 
church, which also supports the enterprise mainly. 


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UNITED HEBREW CHARITIES OF 
CHICAGO. 


Relief Office, 223 26th St. 

Employment Bureau, 223 26th St. 

Michael Reese Hospital, 29th St. and 
Groveland Ave. 

Dispensary, 29th and Groveland. 

Training School, 29th and Groveland. 

"The object is to provide a permanent, efficient 
and practical mode of administering and distribut¬ 
ing the private charities of the Israelites and others 
of Chicago; to put into practical and efficient oper¬ 
ation the best system for relieving and preventing 
want and pauperism among the Jewish poor of said 
city; to assist and aid the sick, the widow, and the 
orphan; to purchase, lease, or otherwise procure 
lands and buildings for the maintenance and conduct 
of hospitals, widow and orphan asylums, homes 
for the aged and infirm, and any other similar insti¬ 
tutions, and to perform whatever act or thing 
may be necessary or proper to relieve the wants and 
needs of the Jewish poor and others in such manner 
as may be deemed best. ’’ 

"Any Hebrew society declaring its intention to 
co-operate with this Association, and contributing 
to the funds of the Association not less than ^50 
per annum, shall be entitled to the privilege of 
membership in this Association." 

Relief Office, 223 26th Street.—The principal work 
of this department is to make its beneficiaries self- 
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HEBREW CHARITIES 


213 


supporting. It reports 40 regular pensioners, receiv¬ 
ing from ^5 to $20 per month, or a total of ^4,700 
during 1893. Clothing, medical care, burials and 
cash, in amounts varying from $5 to ^100 and up¬ 
wards, are expended on the applicants of the Society. 
Transportation, when beneficial, is furnished; 2,949 
residents and 185 transients were assisted during 
1893; 215 cases were aided with transportation at a 
cost of $2,376. The receipts for this department 
were $27,138.62; disbursements, $28,817.27. 

Employment Bureau, 223 26th St. —D uring 1892- 
93, 966 asked for, and 870 received work. 

The United Hebrew Charities are under one finan¬ 
cial management; they embrace these component 
societies: The Hebrew Congregations of Sinai ($11,- 
462), Ansche Mayriv ($3,730), Zion ($2,343), North 
Side ($823), B’nai Sholem ($335). The Lodges, 
Ramah ($50), Hillel ($74), Maurice Mayer ($50), 
Johannah ($150), Russian Refugees’ Aid Society 
($3,693). North-Side Ladies’ Sewing Society ($50), 
Jewish Charity Association ($50), and Young Men’s 
Hebrew Charity Association ($7,400). The general 
support is mainly from voluntary donations—in part 
from endowments, $132,600 being placed ininterest-^ 
bearing investments. No solicitors are employed. 
The property owned consists of an office-building, 
at 223 26th Street, Michael Reese Hospital, and 
a part of Ridge Lawn Cemetery. 



Michael Reese Hospital. 

29th Street and Groveland Ave. 


This Hospital is under the control of “The United 
Hebrew Charities.” It cared for 1,072 patients dur¬ 
ing 1893; of these 257 were non-Jewish pay, 116 
non-Jewish charity patients, 99 Jewish pay, and 
600 Jewish charity patients; 60 were brought by the 
Police Patrol. Number discharged as cured, 658; 
improved, 211; incurable, 17; left, 38; died, 68; 
remaining, 78; daily average, 69; average length 
of stay, 23 days. Money received from pay patients, 
$13,932.50. Total receipts for Hospital, $44,986.66; 
disbursements, $37,551.08. 

Dispensary. Number of treatments, 7,673—1,289 
patients; number of prescriptions for patients outside 
of Hospital, 5,687 on account of charity. 

Training School for Nurses This department of 
the Michael Reese Hospital was established Sep¬ 
tember, 1890. Last year there were a superintend- 
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HEBREW CHARITIES 


215 


ent, 3 head nurses, 23 pupils, 2 probationers, and 
70 applications. They attend to the wants of the 
Hospital patients. The Nurses’ Home contains a 
maternity ward. Classes and lectures are held. The 
earnings of the nurses were $1,530.50. 

Isaac Greenfelder, President. 

Maurice Rosenfeld, Treasurer. 

Charles H after. Financial Secretary. 

Francis A. Kiss, Superintendent. 

The Northwest Charity Association. 

500 Milwaukee Ave. 

Object: "To relieve worthy Hebrew families re¬ 
siding in the northwest part of the city. ” 

The organization, though independent, affiliates 
with the United Hebrew Charities. It was organ¬ 
ized and incorporated in 1890, and gives relief in 
money. Its receipts and disbursements amounted to 
$1,500 in 1893. It is with Hebrew affiliations; 
employs no solicitors or other salaried agents and 
has no endowments. 

Maurice Drosdowitz, President. 

Joseph Goldwater, Treasurer. 

Max Brown, Secretary. 


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HEBREW CHARITIES 


Jewish Training School. 

91 Judd St. 

Object: “It shall be the aim of this Association 
to enable poor Jewish children to become useful 
members of society by teaching them the elements 
of skill, habits of cleanliness and order, thus devel¬ 
oping within them a feeling of self-respect and self- 
reliance. It is the purpose of this Association to 
maintain and carry on a school for boys and girls 
under the age of 18 years in the nature of a Kinder¬ 
garten, a Girls’ Sewing School and Kitchengarten, 
and a Manual Training and Trade School for boys 
and girls. 

The School, which was founded in 1890, has a 
Kindergarten, a Primary and a Grammar Depart¬ 
ment. The Manual Work is conducted as an art 
and mechanical department. The latter embraces 
modeling, free hand drawing and designing. The 
mechanical department comprises Sloyd work, card¬ 
board, wood, and machine work, and sewing, fitting 
and drafting, domestic economy, cooking and house¬ 
hold duties. German, gymnastics, and music are 
also taught. There are also large ungraded classes. 
No charges are made for tuition. The annual cur¬ 
rent expenses average about $20,000. 

Owing to the increase of immigration from Rus¬ 
sia and other foreign lands, the Ungraded Classes 
have always been crowded. Many children who 
came to the school directly from Russia have in less 
than two months been advanced into the fifth or 
sixth grades. 


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HEBREW CHARITIES 


The founder of the School, Leon Mandel, gave 
$ 20 , 000 . This sum was added to by others until 
the property now represents a value of ^75,000. 
Henry L. Frank, President. 

Mrs. Levy Mayer, Vice-President. 

Rabbi Joseph Stoltz, Recording Secretary. 
Herman Hefter, Financial Secretary. 

Leo Fox, Treasurer. 

Gabriel Bamberger, Superintendent. 


DIRECTORS. 


Dr. E. G. Hirsch, 
Mrs. E. Mandel, 
W. N. Eisendrath. 
A. Kopperl, 

L SCHLESINGER, 


Mrs. M. Loeb, 

Mrs. C. Witkowsk\. 
Mrs. Flora Kahn, 
Mrs. M. Rosenbaum. 
Mrs. C. Stettener, 


Mrs. James Rosenthal. 


‘‘LIGHT AND HOPE” HOSPITAL. 

S. W. Cor. Harrison and May Sts. Telephone W.938. 

Deaconess’ Home. 

Free Dispensary. 

The Refuge Home. 

Objects: “To train ladies for nurses and mis¬ 

sionary work. To take care of sick people. To 
care for erring women during confinement. To open 
a Home where orphans and neglected children shall 
be taken care of. To establish a place of recreation 
for the Deaconesses, where they may spend their 
vacation. To send Deaconesses to such families as are 
not able to pay for a nurse, and to take care of their 
sick without pay. To give special training to the 
Deaconesses for confinement cases, and for sickness 
of women and children.” 

In furtherance of these purposes the society, 
which is incorporated as the Missionary . Society 
“Light and Hope,” has established in Berne, In¬ 
diana, April I, 1893, an Orphans’ Home for girls, 
accommodating 100 inmates; at Bluffton,' Ohio, a 
Home for Incurables, and Branch Hospitals at Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio,and Detroit, Mich. 

In Chicago it has purchased and fitted up the 
church on the corner of May and Harrison Streets 
for the purpose of conducting its Hospital, Deacon¬ 
ess’ Home Training School, Refuge for fallen 
and other women, and Free Dispensary. 

The average number of patients in the Hospital 
is forty, of deaconesses, thirty. 

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WORKINGMEN’S HOME AND MEDICAL 
MISSION. 

40 Custom House Place, Near Van Buren. 


Free Nursing. 

Free Dispensary. 
Free Baths. 

Free Laundry. 

J. H. Kellogg, M. D 


A Rescue Home. 

A Penny Lunch. . 
Ten Cent Lodging. 
Mission Farm. 

., Superintendent. 


SALVATION ARMY. 

Relief Depot, 558 W. Madison St. 

Prison Gate House, 184 N. Clark St. 

Slum Post, 576 Jefferson St. 

Slum Post and Shelter, 391 S. Clark St. 

Lieut.-Col. Wm. J. Brewer. 

“LIGHT AND HOPE” HOSPITAL. 

S. W. Cor. Harrison and May Sts. Tel. W. 938. 
Deaconess’ Home. Nurses Training School. 

The Refuge Home. Maternity Hospital. 

Rev. j. a. Sprunger, President. 


EMERGENCY HOSPITAL. 

192 E. Superior St. 

For report see Passavant Memorial Hospital, p. 200. 

SWEDISH HOME OF MERCY. 

Bowmanville P. O., Chicago. 

A Home for aged and infirm poor. 

BAPTIST MISSIONARY TRAINING SCHOOL. 

2411 Indiana Ave. 

CHICAGO DEACONESS’ HOME. 

227 Ohio St. 

Note— The religious affiliations of the above organizations, which have 
furnished no reports, are respectively. Seventh Day Adventist, Salvation 
Army, Menonite, M. E., Swedish Ev. Covenant, Baptist and Meth. Epis. 

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CHICAGO MEDICAL MISSION, 

40 Custom House Place, near Van Buren St. 

Free Nursing. 

Free Dispensary. 

Free Baths. 

Free Laundry. 

Object: “To advance the cause of Christianity, 
and to aid in uplifting the fallen, relieving the suffer¬ 
ing, and improving the condition of the neglected 
classes. ’’ 

The following statement of the origin, and general 
plan of the work is furnished by the Superintendent. 
The Chicago Medical Mission was formally opened 
June 25, 1893. It is Christian, but entirely unde¬ 
nominational in its work. It was established and is 
conducted under the auspices of the S. D. A. Med¬ 
ical Missionary and Benevolent Association, which 
has for many years conducted a self-supporting and 
philanthropic institution at Battle Creek, Mich., 
known as the Battle Creek Sanitarium, and as the 
finances of the institution have improved to such a 
degree as to enable it to extend its work, and 
through the aid of generous gifts from Mrs. C. E. 
Haskell, and other philanthropic persons, has estab¬ 
lished medical missionary work in various lines, and 
in different parts of this and other countries. Its 
principal branches are at St. Helena, Cal., Guada¬ 
lajara, Mexico, and Cape Town, South Africa. It 
has also a branch Sanitarium at 28 College Place, 
Chicago, the means of which are devoted to the sup¬ 
port of the Chicago Medical Mission, though inad> 
equate to carry on the work of the mission. 


COOK COUNTY CHARITIES. 

County Agents’ Office. 

129 S. Clinton Street. 

Object: “To relieve, with provisions, fuel and 
clothing and transportation, the destitute of Cook 
County. “ 

The general monthly allowance of outdoor relief 
for one family is a 25-pound sack of flour, 5 pounds 
of corn beef, 5 pounds of beans, 3 of rice, 5 of oat¬ 
meal, ^ of coffee, and tea, i bar of soap, and in the 
winter a half-ton of soft coal. The allowance is pro¬ 
portioned to the number of persons in the family and 
the measure of disability, large families receiving 
twice this ration. Shoes are also given to school- 
children. Besides giving this relief the County 
Agent furnishes medical care, orders for burials and 
for adm’^-tance to the Poor-House and the Hospital. 

Provisions, etc., given out by County Agent. 



1893. 1894 to Sept. I. 

Pounds of flour.i 

,010,100 

827.125 

meat. 

144,992 

137,332 

“ oatmeal. 

12,090 

254,301 

.“ beans. 

143.591 

117,640 

rice. 

125,172 

100,249 

“ peas. 

56,143 

15,950 

‘‘ coffee. 

18,379 

10,376 

tea. 

15,993 

9,012 

Bars of soap. 

40,877 

32,813 

Pairs of shoes. 

2,128 

2,307 

Suits of clothing. 

79 

I 

Tons of coal. 

11,520 

8,884 

Value of relief. 

Average number of families 

^ 97.794 

173,582 

aided monthly.. 

2,669 

3.248 

No. aided in January. 

3 >o 74 

6,595 

No. aided in December.. 

8,649 

Cases given transportation 

150 

C. J. Happel, 

195 

Agent. 


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COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL 


Cook County Hospital. 

Cor. Wood and Harrison Streets. Established 1865 
Erected 1875. 

Object: “To render medical and surgical attend¬ 
ance to the poor of Cook County. ” 

The Morgue, to receive any unidentified dead, is 
in the basement. 

A Contagious Diseases- Ward is a part of the Hos¬ 
pital. 

Admissions and Expenditures of Hospital. 



1891 

1892 

1893 

1894 

1st 6 months. 

Admitted. 

Discharged. 

Discharged cured. 

Births. 

9.241 

9.105 

8,499 

8,593 

8,035 

10,834 

9,799 

9.739 

398 

1,256 

763 

$158,070.02 

75,163.27 

5.763 

5.389 

7,723 

254 

819 

798 

$78,685.92 
46,909 23 

Deaths. 


I,IOI 

620 

$129,056.17 

68,'»92.86 

Daily average. 

Supplies . 

Salaries. 

$150,764 

62,483 

Total expenditure. 

Average number. 

Per Cap. cost per diem... 

$213,248 

661 

78^ 

5197,349.03 

591 

87/8 

$233,233.29 

5125,595.15 


The property is valued at $1,700,000, covers 13 
acres, is owned and controlled by the Cook County 
Board of Commissioners. 

Wm. F. Monroe, Warden. 

M. R. Mandelbaum, Steward. 

HOSPITAL committee. 

O. D. Allen, Chas. Burmeister, 

J. N. Cunning, J. M. Green, 

George Edmanson. 

Detention Hospital. 

Criminal Court Building,Dearborn Ave.and Ohio St. 

Object: To hold in temporary custody persons 
suspected of insanity and juvenile delinquents and 
dependents preliminary to their trial by court. 



























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COOK COUNTY CHARITIES 


Cook County Insane Asylum. 

Chicago (Dunning P. O.), C., M. & St. P. R. R. 

Object: “To care for the insane of Cook County 
not cared for elsewhere.” 

The average number of inmates during last year 
was 1,038, 550 males and 472 females. The build¬ 
ings are estimated at the sum of ^715,801. 

The property and control is vested in the Board of 
Cook County Commissioners. The support is from 
taxation. 

The number of employees average about 160—90 
males and 70 females. The chronic insane are re¬ 
tained in this asylum; those for whom there is more 
hope for ultimate recovery are transferred to the 
Kankakee or other State hospitals for the insane. 


1892, Inmates Disc’gd 

1 Recov- 

Impro¬ 

Unim¬ 


Trans¬ 

Re- 

Total No 

1 ered 

ved. 

proved, 

Died 

ferred* 

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cared lor 

Males.. 

26 

T < 




165 

65 



Females. 

05 

60 

11 

39 

333 

A A ^ 

000 

632 



4 

-43 

44D 

1893 

Males. 






778 

1292 






464 

4i8 

664 

Females.. ... 

04 

14 

// 

53 

5 

54 

45 

4 

103 

637 

1894—to July 31st. 

881 

1301 






556 

703 

Males. 

29 

17 

53 

43 

8 

49 

29 ' 

6 

472 

571 

Females. 

7 

‘ 3 

1028t 

1274 


The Insane Asylum and Poor-House were, at the 
beginning of the year 1892, placed under one man¬ 
agement. 


Supplies for the two Institutions, I892.$210,092.30 

Salaries “ “ 1892. 80,692,90 

-$290,785.20 

Supplies “ “ 1893.$266,397.30 

Salaries “ *• 1893. 86,073.86 

-$352,471.24 


Of the number of inmates received at the Detention 
Hospital, 2,197 were sent to Dunning, 422 to Kan¬ 
kakee, 422 to Elgin. Various disposition was made 
of the remainder, some being sent to the Poor-House, 
some returned to friends, some to Washingtonian 
Home and some non-residents to the places whence 
they came. 

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COOK COUNTY charities 


Cook County Poor-House. 

Chicago (Dunning P. O.), C., M. & St. P. R . R. 

Object: “To care for the very poor of Cook County 
who cannot be accommodated in other institutions.” 

The average number of inmates is about 1,300— 
both males and females about equally divided. Em¬ 
ployees, 75. 

The farm, comprising 246 acres, on which the 
buildings are located, is cultivated by the inmates; 
the value of the produce in i8gi was $9,469. The 
value of buildings is estimated at $250,000. The 
property and control is vested in the Board of Com¬ 
missioners of Cook County; the support is from tax¬ 
ation. 

The Infirmary is not arranged on the cottage plan. 
There are no industries conducted in it. The wards 
for males are in one wing and for females in another; 
aged couples are therefore necessarily separated. 


1892-Inmates. 

Men. 

Women. 

Children Imb’cil’s 

Total 

Number cared for 1892. 

3885 

1181 

318 

40 

5424 

Births, 108; Deaths. 

388 

125 

35 


548 

Remaining January i, 1893. 

1137 

369 

82 

40 

1628 

1893 






Number cared for 1893. 

5624 

1,274 

327 

41 

7266 

Births, 82: Deaths. 

433 

131 

43 



Remaining January i. 1804. 

1444 

397 

54 

12 

1907 

1894 to July 31. 






Number cared for 1894. 

3190 

854 

192 

15 


Births, 41; Deaths. 

268 

61 

17 



Remaining. 

823 

349 

69 

15 

340 

1256 


1892 

.1893 

1894- 

to July 

31st. 

Tramps accommodated. 

2128 

5266 

5518 




Cost per capita per diem, 1892, 44 1-2 cents. 




























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STATE CHARITIES. 

Illinois State Board of Public Charities. 

Springfield, Ill. 

Object: The aim of this Board is to exercise gen¬ 
eral supervision over the Charitable Institutions of 
the State. The Board was appointed by Gov. 
John P. Altgeld. 

Much of the information concerning the State In¬ 
stitutions contained in this book is furnished by the 
courtesy of its Secretary. 

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. 

Boerne Bettman, M. D., Chicago. 

George W. Curtiss, Stockton. 

Julia C. Lai hrop, Rockford. 

D. W. Andrews, Centralia. 

James McNabb, Carrollton. 

George F. Miner, Secretary. 

STATE GUARDIANS FOR GIRLS. 

The Home for Juvenile Female Offenders. 

Located at Geneva, Kane County, Ill. 

This Home was opened Jan. i, 1893, in a rented 
building at 31 ii Indiana Ave., Chicago, but May 19, 
1894, ^ permanent site was bought upon which 
buildings are erected, at Geneva, Ill. 

The object is to provide for the maintenance, dis¬ 
cipline and reformation of such girls as may be com¬ 
mitted to it, the law being that whenever any girl 
between the ages of ten and sixteen is convicted be¬ 
fore any court of record, or before any Justice of 
the Peace or Police Magistrate, of any offense 
238 


ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES. 


239 


or misdemeanor which, if committed by an adult, 
would be punishable by confinement in any house of 
correction or county jail. Such juvenile offender 
may be committed by the order of such court, to the 
State Home for Juvenile Female Offenders, for a 
time not less than one year nor beyond their minority. 


NUMBER OF INMATES. 

Girls in the home February 6, 1897!. 89 

“ on parole... 14 

“ dismissed since January I, 1893. 13 

“ from Chicago.... . 44 

“ aged 14 and 15. 45 

“ under and above that age. 15 

State appropriations and expenditures for 

buildings and grounds. $ 75,000 

For maintenance during 1895. 57)7oo 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 

Mrs. J. D. Harvey, President.Geneva 

Mrs. G. M. Holt, Secretary..Chicago 

Wm. Prentiss, Treasurer.Evanston 

M. J. Carroll ...Chicago 

F. M. Annis .Aurora 

Ophelia L. Amigh .Superintendent 
















240 


ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES 


Illinois Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children. 

Lincoln, Logan County. Established 1865. 

Object: “To promote the intellectual, moral, and 
physical culture of feeble-minded children, and to 
fit them as far as possible for earning their own 
livelihood and for future usefulness in society.” 

In 1865 the General Assembly authorized the trus¬ 
tees of the Institution for the Education of the Deaf 
and Dumb, at Jacksonville, to open an experimental 
school for idiots and feeble-minded children in a 
rented house. Ten years later, in 1875, this school 
was made permanent, and a site purchased at Lin¬ 
coln, upon which buildings were erected, to which 
large additions have since been made, including a 
custodial department. Cost, $250,000. 

The capacity is greatly overtaxed, 700 having been 
refused admission. Average number of inmates, 546; 
expenses, $91,073.95, for 1894. 

Dr. a. M. Miller, Superintendent. 

Illinois Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home. 

Normal, McLean County. Established 1869. 

Object: “To provide a home for the nurture and 
intellectual, moral and physical culture of all indi¬ 
gent children below the age of fourteen years, whose 
fathers served in the armies of the Union during the 
late rebbllion, and have died or been disabled by 
reason of wounds or disease received therein, or have 
since died.” 

Average number of inmates, 373; expenses for 1894, 
$50,220.97. Capt. C. E. Bassett, Superintendent, 


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242 


ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES 


Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind. 

Jacksonville, Morgan County. 

Object: “To promote the intellectual, moral, and 
physical culture of the blind, and to fit them, as far 
as possible, for earning their own livelihood, and 
for future usefulness in society." 

This Institution, chartered January 13, 1849, was 
opened (in a rented house) in April of that year. 
The site, which contains about twenty acres, is in 
the corporate limits of Jacksonville. The original 
buildings were destroyed by fire in 1869. In addi¬ 
tion to the main structure, there are a separate cot¬ 
tage for girls, workshops, etc. The cost for land 
and buildings was about ^250,000. Instruction is 
given in English, in music, and in mechanical trades. 

It is free to all residents of the State of Illinois, 
of school age, and the adult blind, who have lost 
their sight later in life, are admitted to the shops 
to acquire trades by which to support themselves 
without eyes. Annual appropriations are made for 
its maintenance by the General Assembly. Average 
num-ber of inmates, 167; expenses for 1894, 
^70,010.52. 

Dr. W. F. Short, Superintendent. 









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ILLINOIS INSTITUTION FOR THE^DEAF AND DUMB. 


























244 


ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES 


Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deaf 
and Dumb. 

Jacksonville, Morgan County. Established 1838. 

Cost, $500,000. 

Object: "To promote the intellectual, moral and 
physical culture of the deaf, and to fit them, as far 
as possible, for earning their own livelihood, and for 
future usefulness in society.” 

This is the largest institution for the deaf in the 
world, having a capacity to care properly for 500 
pupils. Instruction is given in the ordinary and 
the higher branches of an English education; also, 
in mechanical trades and free-hand drawing. The 
corps of teachers has been selected with care. The 
younger pupils are separated from the older. The 
facilities for training are exceptionally good, includ¬ 
ing a large library, a hospital, a gymnasium, etc. 
Much attention is paid to training in articulation. 
The discipline is mild, but firm. The institution 
has grown to its present size from a small begin¬ 
ning. It is the oldest of the State institutions, be¬ 
ing chartered February 3, 1839, but was not opened 
until 1845, nor was the original building (the present 
south wing) completed until 1849, and the north 
wing was not completed until 1857. The institution 
now includes a large group of buildings, disconnected 
from each other. Average number of inmates, 351; 
expenses for 1894, $124,098.75. 

Dr. S. T. Walker, Superintendent. 


ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES 245 

Illinois Eastern Asylum for the Insane. 

Kankakee, Kankakee County. Established 1877. It 
has 24 Cottages. Cost, ^1,500,000. 

Its erection marks an epoch in the history of the 
care of the insane in the United States, since it was 
the first successful attempt to break the power of the 
Kirkbride “propositions” adopted by the Association 
of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions 
for the Insane, in accordance with which all previous 
State institutions for this class of patients had been 
planned. The establishment, which has grown to a 
total capacity of 2,000 patients, and is one of the 
largest in the world, is in effect a village for the in¬ 
sane of both sexes, with a main building on the Kirk¬ 
bride system, which accommodates 300 patients, 150 
of each sex,.but is supplemented by a group of 24 
detached wards fronting on streets regularly laid out, 
with sidewalks, sewers, gas and water-mains, shade 
trees, etc. These detached wards are unlike, both 
in their exterior and interior designs, and are adapted 
to the wants of special classes of patients. A por¬ 
tion of them have unlocked doors, and are without 
guards upon the windows. All of them have large, 
wude piazzas for summer use by the inmates. Two 
of them are hospitals or infirmaries, one for each 
sex; that for women has a resident lady physician. 
There are large general bath-houses, with Turkish 
and plunge baths; one general dining-room, which 
seats 410 male patients; special buildings for lodg¬ 
ing employees, one for each sex; workshops for pa¬ 
tients, a theater, etc. 

The farm and grounds include 843 acres, which 



ILLINOIS HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, KANKAKEE 

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ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES 


247 


are the property of the State of Illinois. The grounds 
are beautifully laid out and planted with ornamental 
trees and shrubbery. The site is on the left bank of 
the Kankakee River,adjoining the town of Kankakee, 
but just outside the city limits. 

This, as the other State institutions, is supported 
by annual appropriations by the State Legislature. 

No charges are made for board or medical care. 
Any resident of the State is admitted when needing 
its benefits, and when adjudged insane by a County 
Court. 

District: This Asylum is set apart for the recep¬ 
tion of patients from Champaign, Coles, Douglas, 
Edgar, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, La Salle, 
Livingston, Moultrie, Platt, Vermillion, and Will 
Counties,and a portion of the insane of Cook County. 
Average number of inmates, 2018; expenses for 1894, 
^363.699.63 

Dr. Clarke Gapen^ Superintendent. 

Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane. 

Anna, Union County. Established 1873. Cost, 
about ^750,000. 

It has a capacity of 1,000 inmates. The main 
building is on the Kirkbride plan, but its north wing 
was destroyed by fire in 1881, and the temporary 
wooden barracks then erected are still occupied. 

An annex detached from the hospital was erected 
in 1891 and accommodates 300 patients. The grounds 
are rolling and covered with timber. 

Average number of inmates, 847. Expenses for 
1894, $136,398.83. Dr. W. C. Lence, Supt. 





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ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES ^49 

Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane. 

Jacksonville, Morgan County. 

This is the first hospital for the insane erected in 
the State, and owes its creation largely to the philan¬ 
thropic efforts of Miss Dorothea L. Dix, whose por¬ 
trait hangs in the reception room. The original 
charter was approved March i, 1847. The first pa¬ 
tient was admitted November 3, 1851. The plans 
adopted (to accommodate 450 patients) were not 
completed until 1867, so that the hospital was twenty 
years in building. Additions have since been made 
by extending the wings and by the erection of two 
annexes, connected with each other by a large amuse¬ 
ment hall and chapel, which have increased the ca¬ 
pacity of the institution to 1,200 patients. These 
annexes are separated from the main building, which 
fronts north, while they front east. Each of them is 
in charge of an assistant physician. The hospital 
grounds proper are inside the city limits and con¬ 
tain 160 acres. The outbuildings are very complete. 

District: This hospital is set apart for the recep¬ 
tion of patients from the counties of Adams, Bureau, 
Calhoun, Cass, Christian, DeWitt, Fulton, Greene, 
Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jersey, Knox, Logan, 
Macon, Macoupin, Marshall, Mason, McDonough, 
McLean, Menard, Mercer, Morgan, Peoria, Pike, 
Rock Island, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Stark, 
Tazewell, Warren, and Woodford. Average number 
of inmates, 1,198; expenses for 1894, ^178,630.75. 

Dr. J. F. McKenzie, Superintendent. 


250 ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES 

Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane. 

Elgin, Kane County. Established 1869. Cost, 
$700,000. 

The main structure, which was first erected, was 
fully completed in 1874. It is on the Kirkbride ot 
corridor plan, with wings in separate sections reced¬ 
ing in echelon on each side from the center building. 

The first patient was received April 3, 1872. A 
new building, known as the Annex, to accommodate 
300 patients, was erected in 1891 at a cost of $ 120 ,- 
000. There are also several small cottages for in¬ 
mates on the estate. The out-buildings are numer¬ 
ous and extensive, and the ornamental lawn between 
the hospital and the river is a fine example of suc¬ 
cessful landscape gardening. 

District: This hospital is set apart for the recep¬ 
tion of patients from the counties of Boone, Carroll, 
De Kalb, Du Page, Jo Daviess, Kane, Kendall, Lake, 
Lee, McHenry, Ogle, Stephenson, Whiteside, Win¬ 
nebago, and a portion of the insane of Cook County. 
Average number of inmates, 1,095; expenses for 1894, 
$203,207.51. 

Dr. Loewy, Superintendent. 

Marine Hospital (U. S.) 

N. Halsted St., near Lake Shore Drive. 

Object: “The relief of sick and disabled seamen. 

During 1891 there were 3,431 patients treated. 
The Hospital is supported by the United States gov¬ 
ernment, and occupies spacious buildings, erected in 
1873, and eleven acres of ground, the property of 
the government. It is under the treasury depart¬ 
ment, U. S. Marine Hospital service, port of Chi¬ 
cago. The service is performed by two internes, 
one assistant surgeon, one passed-assistant surgeon, 
and Gen. John B. Hamilton, Surgeon and Com¬ 
mandant. 



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252 


ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES 


Illinois Asylum for Insane Criminals, 

Chester, Randolph County. Established 1889. Cost, 
$45,000. 

Object: “The proper care, custody, and treatment 
of insane criminals, namely, (i) convict insane, (2) 
discharged convict insane, (3) insane sent to the 
State insane hospitals under mittimus, (4) persons 
acquitted on trial for murder, attempt at murder, 
rape, attempt at rape, highway robbery, or arson, on 
ground of insanity. Patients under treatment in 
insane hospitals who have been guilty, previous to 
admission, of homicide, highway robbery, rape, or 
an attempt to commit rape or arson,and whose pres¬ 
ence is dangerous to others; likewise, all insane per¬ 
sons who have committed an act of homicide or who 
have attempted to commit such act, rape or an at¬ 
tempt to commit rape, arson or an attempt to com¬ 
mit arson, while under treatment in either of said 
hospitals, may be transferred to this institution by 
the State Commissioners of Public Charities at their 
discretion. ” 

It is located on the grounds of the Illinois 
Southern Penitentiary at Chester, and under 
the control of the Penitentiary Commissioners but 
not of the warden. 

A building, which cost $45,000, has been erected 
on the bluff, commanding a fine view of the Mis¬ 
sissippi River. Average number of inmates, 112; ex¬ 
penses for 1894, $40,605.73. 

Dr. V. S. Benson, Superintendent. 


ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES 


253 


Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. 

Chicago, Cor. Peoria and Adams Sts. 

Object: “To provide gratuitous board and med¬ 
ical and surgical treatment for all indigent residents 
of Illinois, who are afflicted with diseases of the eye 
or ear.” 

In May, 1858, an association was organized in 
Chicago which established an eye and ear dispen¬ 
sary on North Clark Street. In July, 1864, by pri¬ 
vate subscription, an infirmary was added at Nos. 
16 and 18 East Pearson Street. In 1865 a charter 
was obtained from the legislature, and in 1867-69 
small appropriations were made in aid of this purely 
private institution. After the adoption of the new 
constitution of 1870, the legislature accepted the 
establishment and converted it into a State institu¬ 
tion. It was destroyed in the great Chicago fire, 
Oct. 9, 1871, and for a time occupied a rented build¬ 
ing. But the Chicago Relief and Aid Society made 
it a grant in 1872 of funds with which to purchase 
a new site at the corner of Peoria and Adams Streets, 
and the General Assembly, in 1873, made an appro¬ 
priation for the present building, which has been 
supplemented by other appropriations since made 
for enlargement. Board and lodging are furnished 
at the expense of the State, but only to such persons 
as bring legal certificates of indigence. The medical 
and surgical treatment are rendered gratuitously by 
a staff of specialists. A free dispensary is attached. 
The land and buildings have cost about $80,000. 
Average number of inmates, 112; expenses for 1894, 
$38,698.31. Dr. J. B. Foley, Superintendent. 


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INDEX 


Aged Homes for—List. 4 Chicago Flower Mission.28 

Aged Germans, Homes for.147 ChicagoFoundlings’Home. 33 

Aged Persons, Church Home for.189 Chicago tree Kindergarten Ass’n 85 

Aid—Children’s Aid. 51 Chicago Froebel Kindergarten 

Aid—Relief and Aid Society. 42 Association. 86 

Agriculture and Manual Training, Chicago Home for the Friendless.. 24 

Illinois School of. 67 Chicago Hospital for Women and 

Alexian Brothers’Hospital.173 Children.29 

Chicago Indust. School for Girls.. 173 

Alms, Church Charities. 6 

Altenheim(Home for Aged German)147 Chicago Medical Mission.220 

American Educational Aid Ass’n.. 49 Chicago Nursery and Half Orphan 

Anchorage Mission for Women,W. Asylum. 39 

C. T. U .139 Chicago Orphan Asylum. 35 

Anna Hospital for the Insane.247 Chicago Relief and Aid Society_ 42 

Armour Mission Dispensary. .lOf Children's Aid Society.51 

Armour Mission Industrial School. 105 Children’s Asylum for Feeble 

Minded. .240 

Associated Charities, Bureau of.. .120 Children’s Home Society. 49 

Asylum List. 4 Children’s Hospital—M. Porter 

Asylum,Insane,Cook County.234 Memorial. 92 

Asylum for Feeble Minded Chil- Children’s Hospital W. and C. 29 

dren.240 Church Charities.162 

Church Home for Aged Persons... 189 

Baptist Hospital. 172 Church Home for Orphans.191 

BethesdaDay Nursery—W.C.T.U. 138 Childrens’ Home, M. E.198 

Bethesda Free Kindergarten—W. Church Statistics. 6 

C.T. U .138 Church Relief Statistics. 6 

Bethesda Home—German.166 

Blind—Ill.Institution for the Educa- Citizens’ League of C.fortheSup- 

tion of the...242 pression of the sale of liquorto 

Bureau of Justice. 15 Minors and Drunkards.56 

Bureau of Associated Charities... 120 Qjyjg Federation.Ilf 

Bureau of Labor & Transportation.116 dara Barton Training School'for 

Catholic Chanties.173 Nurses, W. C. T. U .140 

Carriage Rides. .28 clinics 29 

Central Labor and Relief Bureau. .116 Conference oVchariViWand’Cor" 
Central Free Dispensary. 18 rection 13 

.Coffee House'.’.V.65 

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Chicago Deaconess Home ...197 ^ ^ bounty Insane Asylum.234 

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Chicago Exchange for Woman s Charities, III., C. of 

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Chicago Eye and Ear Infirmary .. .254 























































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Contagious Disease Ward Cook 

County Hospital. 232 

C cnvalescents’ Home.188 

Convalescent s’Honie, Presbyterian. 203 

Branch Offices .45 

County Agent’s Office. 231 

County Hospital.232 

County Insane Asylum.234 

Creche,Hull House.65 

Creche,Margaret Etter. 94 

Creche, St. James Church.187 

Creche, Unity.208 

Creche,University. 51 

Creche—List (Day Nurseries). 4 

Cruelty, Prevention of. 78 

Cushing Free Kindergarten. 51 

Crippled Children’s Home.112 

Danish Lutheran Children’s Homel96 

Danish Relief Society.150 

Deaconess’ Home,M. E . 197 

Deaconess’ Orphanage, M. £. 198 

Deaconess’Society, German.166 

Deaf & Dumb, 111 School for the.244 

Diet Kitchen, Hull House. 65 

Diet School. 184 

Dispensaries--List. 60 

Ear and Eye Infirmary, Ill . Char¬ 
itable .253 

Elgin Insane Asylum...250 

Emergency Hospital.22*^ 

Employment Bureau, Home for 

Self-Supporting Women. 62 

Employment Bureau, United He; 

brew Charities.'212 

Employment Bureau—List. 4 

Endowed Charities. 44 

English Relief Society.153 

Englewood Nursery.52 

Episcopal Charities.184 

Epworth House.Of 

Erring Woman’s Refuge .19 

Evanston Indust. School for Girls..73 

Exchange for Woman’s Work.22 

Eye and Ear Infirmary, Ill. Char¬ 
itable.253 

Feeble Minded Children, Ill. Asy¬ 
lum. 240 

Feehanville Training School for 

Boys (St. Mary’s).180 

Florence Crittenden Anchorage for 

Girl^.139 

Flower Mission. 28 

Foundlings’ Home... 33 

Free Dispensary Central. 18 

Free Kindergarten Association.... 85 
Fresh Air Ass’n, Lake Geneva.’... 91 

Fresh Air Fund.107 

Fresh Air Work—List. 4 

Friendless—Home for the. 24 

Friendly Aid Society . 61 


Froebel Kindergarten Ass’n.86 

Guardian Angel Orphan Asylum...174 

G. A. R. Chicago Posts.155 

G. A. R. Ladies.158 

German Bethesda Deaconess’ 

Society.166 

German Hospital of Chicago.150 

German Nurses’Training School... 166 

German Old People’sHome...147 

German Relief Society.143 

German Society of Chicago.143 

Glenwood School of Ag. and M. 

Training. 67 

Girls Industrial School, Chicago.173 

Good Shepherd, House of the.174 

Grand Army of the Republic.155 

Guardian Angel Orphan Asylum.. 174 

Guardians, State.238 

Hahnemann Hospital.22P 

Half Orphan Asylum. 39 

Hebrew Charities.,212 

Holy Family Orphan Asylum.175 

Home for Incurables. 32 

Home for Working Boys.175 

Home for Convalescents.188 

Home for Crippled Children.112 

Home for the Friendless.24 

Home for Self-Supporting Women. 62 

Homeopathic (Baptist) Hosp. 1 172 

Homes for the Children—List. 4 

Homes for the Aged—List. 4 

Homes for Women—List_ • . 4 

Hospitals—List. 4 

Hull House.,.... 65 

Humane Society, Ill. 78 

House of the Good Shepherd.174 

House of Mercy....177 

Incurables, Home for. 32 

Indust. School for Girls, Chicago.173 

Industrial School for Girls, Ill_ 73 

Industrial Schools—List of Homes 

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Inebriates’ Home (Washingtonian)129 
Infectious Disease Ward Cook Co. 

Hospital.232 

Infirmary,Cook County.236 

Infirmary,Eye and Ear.253 

Insane Asylum, Cook Co.234 

Insane Asylum—List. 5 

Insane Criminals, Ill. Asylum.248 

Institute of Manual Training.105 

Institute, Armour’s.105 

Ill. Asylum for Feeble Minded 

Children.240 

Ill. Asylum for Insane Criminals..252 
Ill. Cent. Hospital for Insane.249 

























































































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firmary.253 Mercy Hospital.176 

Ill. Conference of Charities and Methodist Charities.197 

Corrections. 13 Methodist Episc, Deaconess’Homel97 

Ill. Eastern Insane Asylum, Kan- Michael Reese Hospital of United 

kakee.245 Hebrew Charities.212 

Illinois Humane Society.78 Minnetonka Hotel, Working Wom- 

Illinois Industrial Association. 83 an’s Home Association.124 

Ill. Industrial School foi Girls Morgue, Cook County Hospital,.. .232 

(Evanston). . 73 Needlework Guild.123 

Ill. Institution for the Education of Newsboys’ Home. 95 

the Blind.242 Normal Soldiers’and Sailors’ Gr¬ 
ill. Institution for the Education phan’s Home.240 

of the Deaf and Dumb.244 Northern Hosp. for the Insane_250 

Ill. Masonic Orphan’s Home.160 Norwegian Relief Society.151 

Ill. Northern Hospital for Insane. .250 Northwest Charity Association.. .215 

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ual Training. 67 

Ill. Soldiers’ and Sailors’Home.. 159 
Ill. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ 

Home.240 

Ill. Southern Hosp. for Insane... 247 

Ill. St. Andrew’s Society.152 

Ill. Training School for Nurses_ 82 

Jacksonville Hosp. for Insane.249 

Jacksonville Institution for the Ed. 

of the Deaf and Dumb .244 

Jacksonville Institution for the Ed. 

of the Blind.242 

Jewish Training School.216 

Justice, Bureau of. 15 

Juvenile Female Offenders.238 

Kankakee Insane Asylum.245 

Kindergartens, Enumerations of.. 88 

Kindergarten Ass’n—-List . 4 

Kindergarten College. 87 


Labor and Transportation.116 

Ladies of the G. A. R.158 

Lake Geneva Fresh Air Ass n..., 94 
Laundry—Provident—Home for S, 

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Light and Hope Hospital.226 

Lincoln Asylum for Feeble Minded 

Children...240 

Lincoln Park Sanitarium .107 

Little Sisters of the Poor, Homes.. 176 

Lutheran Charities.194 

Lutheran Childr’n’s Home (Danish)196 
Lutheran Orphan Asy. (Uhlich’s).. 193 

Manual Training, School of Agr. & 67 
Manual Training School, All Souls210 


Margaret Etter Creche. 94 

Marine Hospital.250 

Mary A. Ahrens Mission.170 

Masonic Orphan’s Home.161 

Martha Washington Home.132 

Maternity Department, Presby¬ 
terian Hospital.203 

Maurice Porter Memorial Hospital 
for Children.92 


Nursery & Half Orphan Asylum... 39 
Nurse Association, Visiting ...... 127 

Nurses’ Training Schools—List_ 4 

Old People’s Home. 97 

Old People’s Home,German.147 

Orphan Asylum, Chicago. 35 

Orphan Asylum, Uhlich’s Ev. L.. .193 
Orphan Asylum, Guardian Angel.. 174 
Orphan Asylum, St. Joseph Prov¬ 
idence.179 

Orphans, Church Home for. 192 

Orphans’ Home.Soldiers’ and Sail¬ 
ors’ .240 

Out Door Relief, County.231 

Police Department Report.255 

Placing out Children—List. 4 

Presbyterian Hospital.203 

Protective Agency for Women and 

Children. 98 

Protective Agencies—List. 4 

Providence Orphan Asylum S Jos.179 
Provident Hospital and Training 

School.101 

Provident Laundry, Home for S. S. 

Women. 64 v 

Public School Kindergartens. 90 

Quincy Soldiers’ & Sailors’ Home. 159 
Reformatories—List. 4 

Refuge for Erring Women. 19 

Relief & Aid Society, Chicago. 42 

Relief-Giving Societies—List. 4 

Relief Office—United Hebrew 

Charities.212 

Report of Department of Police.... 142 
Rush Medical College Dispensary 18 

Sailors’ & Soldiers’Home.159 

Sanitarium, Lincoln Park.107 

School Children’s Aid.102 

School of Agriculture and Manual 

Training. 67 

Scotch Relief Society (St. Andrew’s)152 
Self-Supporting Women’s Home.. 62 

Social Settlements—List. 66 

Soldiers. 155 

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Soldiers’ Relief Association.HP.9 

Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans’ 

Home.240 

Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home.159 

Southern Hosp, for the Insane.247 

State Charities.238 

State Board of Public Charities.. .23« 

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St. Andrew’s Society.152 

St. Elizabeth Hospital.182 

St. George’s Benevolent Ass'n_153 

St. James Church Creche.187 

St. Joseph’s Home.177 

St. Joseph’s Hospital.175 

St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum.178 

St. Joseph’s Providence Orphan 

Asylum.179 

St. Joseph’s Home and School for 

Deaf Mutes. 177 

St. Luke’s Dispensary.184 

St. Luke’s Hospital.184 

St. Mary’s Home for Children_186 

St. Mary’s Mission Dispensary... 186 

St. Mary’s Mission House. 

St. Mary’s Training School for 

Boys.180 

St. Paul’s Church Free Kinder¬ 
garten.206 

St. Paul’s Church Indust. School..206 

St. Vincent Infant Asylum.183 

Suppression of Vice, Western 

Society.134 

Swedish Home of Mercy.22^ 

Swiss Benevolent Society.154 

Talcott Day Nursery, W. C .T. U..139 

The Daily News Fresh Air Fund.. 107 

The Lincoln Park Sanitarium.107 

The Minnetonka Hotel for Women* 124 
The Newsboys’ and Bootblacks’ 
Association. 95 


Transportation, Bureau of Labor &.116 

Training School, Waifs Mission..168 
Training School for Nurses, Ill.... 82 
Training School for Nurses—List.. 4 
Training School, Provident Laun¬ 
dry. 64 

Transient Home,Y. W. C. A.163 

Traveler’s Aid Department, Y. W. 

C. A.163 

Uhlich’s Evangelical Lutheran Or¬ 
phan Asylum.193 

Unitarian Charities .207 

Universalist Charities.206 

Unity Church Ind. School.208 

United Hebrew Charities of Chi¬ 
cago.212 

United States Marine Hospital... .250 

University Creche. 51 

Visitation and Aid Society.181 

Visiting Nurse Association.127 

Waifs’ Mission and TrainingSchooll68 

Washingtonian Home.129 

Wesley Hospital.?,9'7 

Western Society for the Suppres¬ 
sion cf Vice. 134 

Woman’s Baptist Home Mission 

Society. 172 

Women and Children’s Protective 

Agency. 98 

Woman’s Christian Temperance 

Union.138 

Woman’s Refuge for Reform.19 

Woman’s Relief Corps of Ills.155 

Women’s Work Exchange.22 

Women’s Homes—List.. 4 

Wood Yards—C. R. andA. C.46 

Working Women’s Home Ass’n....124 
Young Women’s Christian Ass’n. 163 















































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